
Kolukattai Recipe | South India’s Steamed Coconut-Jaggery Rice Dumplings for Ganesh Chaturthi
Kolukattai is a steamed rice flour dumpling filled with a sweet coconut and jaggery mixture. It is shaped into a cone with pleated edges pinched

Kolukattai is a steamed rice flour dumpling filled with a sweet coconut and jaggery mixture. It is shaped into a cone with pleated edges pinched

What is Karanji? Karanji is a deep-fried Maharashtrian sweet made of a thin wheat-flour or maida shell stuffed with a rich filling of grated coconut,

What is Gulab Jamun? Gulab jamun is a classic Indian dessert made of soft, deep-fried milk solid (khoya) dumplings soaked in a fragrant sugar syrup

Every year, a few weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, my grandmother would start practicing her modak pleats, insisting hers had gotten rusty since the last festival.