Kudumulu

Kudumulu is offered to Lord Ganesh in auspicious days. This is not only served in auspicious days but also served as healthy breakfast with coconut chutney or onion chutney. I will post these two chutneys in my next posts. In this recipe Chana Dhal is optional. You can make Kudumulu without Chana Dhal also. You can view both varieties in below pictures.

Kudumulu is made with cracked Rice/Rice Rava (not Idly Rava). I usually make this cracked Rice at home, in this post I also described, how to make cracked Rice, so please go through my entire post.

 

Ingredients:

Cracked Rice             1 cup.
Salt                             1 tsp.
Chana Dhal                2 tbsp.
Ghee/cooking oil        2 tbsp.
Water                         2 cups.

Cooking Procedure:

• Take a cooking pot and pour 2 cups of water in it. 
• Once water gets boiled add salt and few drops of oil.  
• Mix it well, so that salt will be dissolved completely. Now slowly pour Cracked Rice and stir it well.
• Put a lid; let it cook at low flame. It will take about 15-20min to cook.
• Meanwhile you can cook Chana Dhal without salt and with little water in a bowl using pressure cooker. Cook up to 3 whistles to come.
• Once the Cracked Rice is cooked, spread this cooked cracked rice in a big plate for cooling.
• Once the Chana Dhal is cooked drain the water completely.
• Now add cooked Chana Dhal with cooked cracked Rice and mix them well without any lumps and with little bit of oil and few drops of water.
• With an oily greased hand make desired size of round balls or flat disk shapes (like above picture I didn’t use Chana Dhal in flat disk shape kudumulu). Now arrange them in a flat vessel.
• Now steam them like an Idly in a cooker/steamer for about 10-15min @medium flame without whistle (pressure).
• Once it is done you can serve them with two chutneys mentioned above.

For making cracked Rice/Rice Rava:

• Take desired amount of any kind of rice other than boiled rice, wash it and soak it about an hour.
• Drain the water completely and dry it.
• Once rice is completely dried then grind it in a blender at low speed. After that sieve it until rava doesn’t have any flour left inside. Now you can store it in airtight container for later use.