Ganesha Chaturthi special

Ganesha Chaturthi is one of the acclaimed festival among hindus .It is considered the day when lord Ganesha is believed to bestow his presence on earth. The custom is to prepare neyvediams and perform pooja to clay-made Ganesha. A week after the pooja the clay-ganesha is immersed in water to mark the end of festival.
The items to be prepared for neyvediyam include Vada, payasam, kozhukattai, appam etc. A little complicated dish of all these will be kozhukattai , not for the experienced hands , but for the amateurs like me !!! :-) After a little struggle I managed to learn the recipe to prepare a kozhukattai .

Here you go with my recipe for Vella kozhukattai
Ingredients required :
For the outer white layer :
1. Rice flour - 2 cups
2. Salt - 2 Tsps
3. oil - 2 tsps

For inner jaggery ball :
1. jaggery - 2 cups
2. coconut grated - 2 cups
3. Ghee - 2 to 3 tsps

Preparation :
Outer layer :
Place a pan on heat , add 2 cups of water ,rice flour ,salt and oil to it and keep stirring until the paste leaves sticking to pan. keep it aside and allow it to cool

Jaggery balls :
Add ghee in a pan and put it on flame, and then add coconut and jaggery to it.remove from heat on turning thick. Set it aside, allow to cool and then prepare small balls.

Kozhukattai:
oil hands and prepare the white paste in such a way that u can place the jaggery balls within it . close it well. Now steam this for 5 min . You will get sweet kozhukattais ready ... :)