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AADI KOOZH - Ragi Kanji

AADI KOOZH - Ragi Kanji


 Aadi koozh is made with ragi, kezhvaragu with other ingredients like buttermilk, raw onion, green chillies. 


Today Aadi third friday and thought of posting aadi koozh recipe.  I always have ragi kanji with butter milk. For kids we can add milk.  In my mother in law home, they do this koozh every year in temple and distribute to among the people. I never know how to do in authentic way by fermentation method, so i took help from my mil.  This koozh is very famous in Amman temples and in Tamil Nadu they distributes this as prasadham in Aadi month. They serve this koozh with karuvattu kuzhambu / puli kuzhambu / pickle.  Today we had just as it is with no side dish :-)  Just for clicks I have kept some fried moor milaga and chopped onions :-)
Lets cook with step-by-step pictures.

Now lets see how to cook:
AADI KOOZH - Ragi Kanji


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Aadi koozh is made with ragi, kezhvaragu with other ingredients like buttermilk, raw onion, green chillies. 
Author: Shalini
Recipe type: Weightloss 
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 2 servings
Ingredients
  • Ragi flour - 1 cup
  • Par-boiled rice - 1/2 cup
  • Water - 6 glass
  • Buttermilk or thick curd - as per serve 
  • Chopped onions - 1 
  • Green chilli - 2
  • Salt - as per taste
Instructions
  1. A day before night take 1 cup of ragi flour, with 3 glass of water and mix well without lumps, then cover it with thick cloth and place it near warm place for better fermentation for 12 hours.
  2. Next day the ragi batter could be fermented well, take a wooden spatula and mix well to make into thick batter without adding any water.
  3. Wash and soak the par-boiled rice for 20 min.
  4. In a large pan add 6glass of water and bring it to boil and then add soaked rice into it and let it get cooked well.
  5. Once the rice is cooked add the fermented ragi batter into it and keep mixing without any lumps. Cook this for 30 mins. In all this process do not add salt.
  6. Once the ragi batter becomes thick, just dip your finger in plane water and touch the cooked ragi batter if it is not sticking in your fingers than its done Off the flame and let it get cool down.
  7. Take required ragi batter and add either thick curd or butter milk, required water, with salt, chopped onions and chopped green chilli and serve.
  8. Enjoy!
Pictorial:
A day before night take 1 cup of ragi flour, with 3 glass of water and mix well without lumps, then cover it with thick cloth and place it near warm place for better fermentation for 12 hours.

Add 6 glass of water and bring it to boil

Add soaked rice into the water

cook the rice well

Now mix the fermented ragi batter well

Add to the well cooked rice and keep mixing without any lumps 
  
keep mixing 

Once cooked well colour of the ragi flour will change 

Once the ragi batter becomes thick, just dip your finger in plane water and touch the cooked ragi batter if it is not sticking in your fingers than its done Off the flame and let it get cool down.

Take required ragi 

Add thick curd or butter milk

Add salt

Add water

And mix it 

Serve with chopped onions, green chilli 

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