Mothagam (Modak)

This is the favorite sweet for Vinayagar, it is made with Rice flour and dal  jaggery stuffing. Mothagam is in round shape. There are lot of varieties of Kozhukattai. The main ingredient is rice flour, it is always good when it is done by homemade rice flour, if you do not have an option of preparing your rice flour at home, better get one kozhukatai mix or rice flour specially for kozhukattai. This one is mainly prepared on the day of Vinayagar Chaturthi.

Ingredients
1 cup Rice flour
1/2 cup Jaggery
1/2 cup chana dal
1/4 teaspoon Cardamon powder
1 teaspoon ghee.
Water

Method

• Heat 1 cup of water with 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Pour this into the rice flour and stir continuously so that there is no lumps formed.
• Knead into soft dough. Cover this dough with wet cloth.
• Meanwhile cook the chana dal till it become soft, coarse grind the cooked dal without adding water.
• Add the powdered jaggery or filtered liquid jaggery, cardamon powder, ghee to the dal and mix well, prepare small balls.
• Now take the prepared dough and make small balls.
• Grease your palm with oil and keep the dough in your palm and flatten into round shape, now place the dal jaggery ball on it and close it.
• Arrange all the prepared Kozhukattais on the greased idli plate and steam cook for 5 mins or till it is done.
• Kozhukattai is now ready:).

Note

It is always advisable to melt the jaggery with one teaspoon of water and strain it, so that the dirt can be removed, even if it is like a thick liquid, no problem you can add it to the dal.