Ingredients:

• Milk 1 liter (¼ gallons)
• Raw rice 50 grams (2 ounces)
• Cashews 6 finely sliced
• Cardamoms 3 powdered
• Sugar (depends on how sweetness you want)
• Pachai Karpooram (Raw Camphor) size of a whole black pepper
• Ghee (clarified butter) 2 tsp

Procedure:

1. Prep:
   1. Fry the rice in 1 tsp ghee on low heat till it becomes golden brown.
   2. Let the rice cool
   3. Grind it coarsely and boil it in water and cook it
2. Heat the milk in low heat until it reduces to half its volume
3. Add the cooked rice and cook for 5 minutes and remove from heat
4. While its still hot add sugar, cashews, cardamoms, pachai karpooram, and the left over ghee and stir till the sugar dissolves

Ingredients:

• Raw rice flour 4 cups
• Salt

Procedure:

1. Add 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp oil to the rice flour
2. Add adequate water to the rice flour and mix till it reaches the consistency of idli batter or pancake mix
3. Pour the batter into a pan and heat in medium fire while consistently stirring till it hardens into a thick paste suitable for making into flat thin sheets
4. Make the batter into small round balls and press them into flat round sheet the thickness of a roti/tortilla
5. Take the pooranam (stuffing) and stuff it like a dumpling and steam it

Pooranam (stuffing) recipes:

Kolukkattai Pooranam

Kolukkattai Channa Dal Pooranam

Kolukkattai Coconut Chutney Pooranam

Ingredients:

• Coconut 1/2
• Red chilies 5
• Asafoetida 1 pinch
• Mustard seeds 1 tsp
• Urad dal 1 tsp
• Curry leaves

Procedure:

1. Grind the coconut, red chilies, salt, and asafoetida with minimum water into chutney
2. Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan and fry mustard seeds, urad dal, and curry leaves till it splutters and then add it to the chutney and mix

Ingredients:

• Channa dal 2 cups
• Cardamoms 2 powdered
• Brown sugar 1 cup

Procedure:

1. Boil 8 cups of water and add the channa dal and cook it fully. Drain the water and allow it to cool
2. Add the cardamoms and the cooked channa dal and grind it coarsely
3. Heat 1/4 cup of water to a boil and add the brown sugar till it reaches a thread consistency (if you take a pinch of it and separate your fingers the syrup must stretch like a thread between the fingers)
4. Add the ground channa dal mix to the brown sugar syrup

Ingredients:

• Coconut 2 cups – grated
• Brown sugar 1 cup
• Cardamoms 2 powdered

Procedure:

1. Heat 1/4 cup of water to a boil and add the brown sugar till it reaches a thread consistency (if you take a pinch of it and separate your fingers the syrup must stretch like a thread between the fingers)
2. Add the grated coconut and the powdered cardamoms
3. Keep stirring till the mix hardens to the required consistency (consistency of bread pudding)