Kalthappam

Ingredients:

Briyani rice  - 4 cups (soaked in water for 3 hrs)

Cooked rice - 1 cup 

Jaggery - 1 kilo 

Water - 6 cups

Grated coconut - 1/2 cup

Baking powder 1tsp

Salt - pinch

Oil - 2 tsp

Garnish  - pieces of fried coconut  and small onions thinly sliced.

Method:

• You need wide thick bottom shallow vessel.
• Grind the soaked rice and cooked rice with 3 glass water into fine consistency. 
• Dissolve jaggery in 3 cups of remaining water and remove impurities. 
• Add this to the rice mixture. Add the 1/2 cup grated coconut, baking powder and salt to it.
• Then slightly warm this mixture.
• Slight Luke warm temp is enough. 
• Remove from flame  and divide into 4 parts.
• In the  wide bottom vessel add oil sauté the small onions until brown . 
• Add the fried coconut pieces. And 1 part of the mixture.
• Cover with heavy lid. And  cook it in slow flame for 1/2 hour. 
• Remove the lid  and slide this on the plate.
• This gives 4 kalthappam.