Kaatuyanam Arisi Kara Kozhukkattai
Have you tried the latest recipe pumpkin pasta or soora kuruvai dosa? What was the latest recipe you had tried from KitchenKathukutty? Today’s recipe is Kaatuyanam Arisi Kara Kozhukkattai and this was on my drafts saved. You can also find the complete guide about native rice usage I made on Instagram in the link
Kaatuyanam Arisi Kara Kozhukkattai
We might have seen ads claiming to offer lion-like strength on the consumption of few products, but this rice is naturally made to give such the strength of an elephant. SO far you might have watched the following recipes made with this rice
I recently made idly too. I shall soon share the post.
Kaatuyanam Arisi Kara Kozhukkattai
Serves 3
Ingredients:
- Kaatuyanam Rice-1 cup
- Coconut grated-1/3 cup
- Oil-To cook
- Mustard Seeds-1/4 tsp
- Urad Dhal-1/4 tsp
- Curry Leaves-Handful
- Gram dhal-1/4 tsp
- Red chillies-2
Procedure:
1. Wash and soak the rice overnight or for 8 hours. Completely drain the water.
2. Add the rice to the grinder/mixie along with salt, coconut,chilly and grind well with 1/2 cup of water.
3. In a thick bottomed pan, add oil and temper with mustard seeds, urad dhal, gram dhal, and curry leaves.
4. Add the ground batter and keep stirring until it thickens and gets rolled into one non-sticky mass like the picture below.
5. Shape them in your palms and steam cook in low flame for 10-15 minutes.
6.Serve it hot with ulunthu chutney or coconut chutney
What is Kaatuyanam Rice?
The rice variety is from Tamil Nadu and it is one of the traditional red rice variants. The name signifies two things – The crop grows so huge that an elephant can hide behind it and eating this rice gives your the strength of an elephant. Yaanam/Yaanai is an elephant in Tamil. The crop can grow in any climate and even in the driest conditions. It is blackish-red in colour. Naturally, this rice doesn’t need much maintenance during the growth period
Health Benefits:
This rice is rich in calcium, magnesium and fibre, hence making it help in digestion and bone, teeth, hair growth.
With most highly polished rice, chances of obesity and diabetes are high with lifestyle disorders. Whereas this Kaatuyaanam is highly rich in calcium and not in carbohydrates.
It helps you fight against knee, joint pains and helps in fighting arthritis.
The bran contains anthocyanins and is very rich in minerals and vitamins.
It has anti-ageing properties and helps you fight heart diseases.
Most women are running around with joint pains and many take calcium supplements. Instead of supplements please try including our indigenous rice in your daily meal
Where to buy this rice?
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P.S:
The stirring would help in avoiding lumps.
It would require 10 minutes of stirring.
The batter shouldn’t be too runny and too coarse.
You can use any red rice variant in the same recipe.
References:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42779-019-0017-3
www.iari.res.in – NutrientDensepigmented rice
www.asianagrihistory.org
http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/itk/IndigenousTechKnowledge_Crop_Rice1.html
nammalavar.co.in
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Disclaimer:
I am not a qualified doctor/nutritionist/medical practitioner. The information is not equivalent to medical expert advice. The information is based on the reading and research I do and the references are shared above. Thank you :0