From the collection “360 Golden Dishes” by Revathy

Maha 2013

From the collection “360  Golden Dishes” by Revathy

Category: Tamil Festival sweet snacks

ID-251

Dish Name:  Thiruvathira kali

Occasion:    on a Tamil festival day : Thiruvathira

a) Ingradients:

1.       Prepare 1^st ingredient -Rice Flour:  In a small kadai, roast without oil, 2 glasses of coarse Rice flour till its colour changes. Remove from fire and put it in a bowl.

2.       Prepare 2^nd ingredient-Dhal Flour: In the small kadai roast without oil half glass full of Channa Dhal (halfed) +Moong Dhal (halfed). Cool it and powder it coarsely. Heat again without oil till it turns to reddish brown colour. Remove from fire and add to the rice flour bowl.

3.       Prepare 3^rd ingredient for taste: Powder jaggery to measure 2.5 glasses and keep in a plate.

4.       Prepare 4^th   Ingredient- Grate half coconut and keep aside.

5.       Prepare 5^th   ingredient-Seasoning: Fry Cashew nut 15 nos split to half and kismis 10 nos in 3 teaspoons of ghee and keep aside.

6.       Prepare 6^th  ingredient for flavour: Powder 10 nos Elaichi

b) Preparation Method using kadai over fire:

7.       In a big Kadai, heat to boil 6 glasses of water.

8.       Take 2.5 glasses of powdered Jaggery and add to the boiling water. Simmer for 5 mins / till jaggery dissolves well.

9.       Add 4 more teaspoons of Ghee to the boiling water.

10.   Add the grated coconut as in step-4 to the boiling water.

11.   Add the flour slowly and continuously with one hand while turning with the other hand using a flat ladle. Turn from bottom towards all sides of Kadai to the middle to get uniform mixture.

12.   Turn with ladle till the mixture solidifies. Now remove from fire.

c)Seasoning and serving

13.   Add seasoning as in step 5 and step-6

14.   The soft pulpy sweet dish Thiruvathira Kali is ready to eat. It is a standalone dish. Best while serving hot. Store in a steel container with lid and consume within a day or two. 

Avoid plastic container /plate or spoon.