Monday, April 26, 2010

Opputtu

 Ingredients:
  • Split channa dal – 300 g
  • Jaggery – 150–200 g
  • Grated coconut – 100 g
  • Cardamom – 8 nos
  • All purpose flour – 200 g
  • Water
  • Turmeric powder – ½ Tea spoon
  • Salt
  • Oil or ghee
Method:

  •  Soak split channa dal for about an hour and cook (do not mash) those by using little amount of water.
  • Discard cooked water (or can be used for making rasam) and grind with jaggery into coarse in a wet grinder. Keep aside.
  • Dry roast grated coconut.
  • Mix the ground mixture, roasted coconut, pinch of salt and cardamom seeds.
  • Then make them into small lemon sized balls. Keep aside.
  • Mix all-purpose flour, pinch of salt, turmeric powder and water. This mixture should be of bajji or bonda batter consistency.
  • Make that lemon sized small balls (dal and jaggery mixture) into patties (or like vada), dip in all-purpose flour batter and place over heated dosa tava. Pour a tea spoon of oil or ghee and cook both the sides until they are done. Cook one or two at a time.
 Note:
  • This is one of the famous traditional sweets in Kongu region of Tamil Nadu (India). 

18 comments:

  1. Hey ...its been ages since i had obattu or seeiyam .. This reminds me now to make seiyam ... looks very beautiful

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  2. Opputtu looks delicious dear :-)
    Cute presentation..

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  3. Krishna,,,opputtu rombha cute ah azhagha irukku paa rombha super taste ah thaan iirukkum nalla paruppu opputtu vera,, rombha naal aachu opputtu saapte..

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  4. These look so cute, would love to try this, very beautiful sweet dish...

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  5. wow..what a unique sweet dish..simply awesome :)

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  6. Beautiful presentation and looks so yummy dear....

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  7. Cute opputtu looks tempting...my fav!!

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  8. nice recipe.. shallow frying, use of jaggery makes it healthy too..
    Thanks for sharing!

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  9. plz do coolect yourawards from my blog :)

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  10. Delicious...they look so tempting,dea

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  11. What is jaggery? I haven't heard of that before!

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  12. jaggery is a traditional unrefined sugar from sugarcane

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  13. when i was in bangalore i used to get this item from my mysore friends. nice photos!

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  14. Looks tempting.Should be a healthy snack for kids.

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  15. Hello friends thanks a lot for your comments

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  16. Mouth watering recipe krishnaveni. Waiting to go home (coimbatore) for this diwali to eat this delicious one. May be I'll try to do from your recipe (Don't worry, I will not file a suit on you for consequences...ha ha ha). I see from your profile you're from BC, Canada. Nice to know, I'm from Ontario, Canada

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