AVALOSEUNDA- ROASTED RICE POWDER SNACK Dear friends,
Normally I prepare CulturalQA keeping TV switched ON and volume kept medium. Rather than watching, hearingsoaps I prepare and finish the QA for next day posting. Mostly the QApreparation might be over by 9PM starting at 6 PM. I was watchingserial Amma- Makal (Mother -daughter) in Zee TV at 9 PM on 16-11-2021. I wasvery much attracted to the conversation of a Dubai returned middle aged man to his wife in an occasion. The wife askswhat wrong has happened to you living with me all these years. The husbandreplies- Onus parayanda, jnam ippol aana methichha avalosunda polae aayi (Living with you, now I am likethe roasted rice powder round snack thrash by an elephant). I could not controlmy laugh. Avaloseunda is arice powder preparation added with crated coconut flush and jaggery/sugar and preparedin spherical shape, mostly by Christians. My thoughts went tosome Hindu spherical preparations. I requests readers respond with additionsand corrections. Sincerely, Gopala krishnan 18-11-21. 1Kozhukkatta There are two typesof preparations, one is rarely and another occasionally prepared. Thedifference is getting narrowed nowadays. Kozhukkatta is a rice preparationmade out of roughly ground rice dough added with crated coconut meat, boiled slightly and made to the size of anorange and again boiled in water. Slight salt is added. Mustard and curry leavesis fried and added for taste. The dough also can he held in fist and made asPitikozhukkattai . For Amavasi(dark moon) manyBrahmins have the preparation Kozhukkattai in orange size in night instead ofrice. Nowadays many children like Kozhukkatta, it has become a weekly nightsnack in many homes. Cannot talk keepingeven a bit of kozhukkattai in his/her mouth. So a person not answering aquestion is asked- Are youhaving kozhukkattai in mouth? I recollect alegend told by mother in childhood days. One recently married man went with his wife to her home and stayed a week. Mother in law preparedand gave different snack items. One of them was kozhukkattai which he tastedmuch. On return he askedhis wife to prepare thatitem. He forgot the name of kozhukkattai. Wife began to cry on hishitting her for not preparing that in the evening. She started crying. Hearing the cries next house mami came and seeingbulged portion of body by hitting said- See-it appears like kozhukkattai. Then he gotthe name and next home mami herself prepared and gave Kozhukkattai. 2. Rava Laddu. Rava laddu isanother preparation, using wheat rava, adding sugar and spices like cashew,cardamom skin removed, raisin etc. Mostly prepared during festive seasons. It is mostlyprepared about the size of a lemon. This would also expandwhile putting in mouth. 3. Maladu It is preparedusing Bengal gram powder, adding slight oil, and sugar and spices. It would expand very much and cutto pieces and eaten or bitten as small pieces. Unlike rava laddu it is sticky. 5. Ganapathi khoukkatta. Batter is prepared thickwith raw rice, slightly boiled in a similar manner like Kozhukkatta, but it is spread on leaf, a jaggery added coconutpoornam is made to gooseberry size and covered with a layer of the dough andagain boiled .During Vinayakachathurthi, in all Brahmin homes, this kozhukkatta is prepared asnivedyam. However thiskozhukkatta is prepared during srardha also to serve Bhokthas. Though not preparedin homes regularly, many restaurants like Adyar aanada bhavan, Grand snacks etc. Prepare it as evening snack. Size abouta big onion. They prepare it in mould. 6. Laddu This is made usinggram flour made to semi liquid form making as boondi frying in oil, mix with hotjaggery-ghee mix and add spices like cashew cardamom, clove etc. and preparedto the size of a small ball. It isprepared for marriage as a seer item in different sizes. For sambandhies,large, added with more spices. Guests smaller, with few spices. Nowadays Laddu isavailable in tea shops also in Kerala. I could listen to a doctor telling aboutnature of diabetics in Kerala.- Give two laddus, and one tea without sugar.What is the purpose of drinking a tea without sugar after consuming two laddus,full of sugar. 7a. Tirupathi Laddu. Tirupathi laddu isvery large in size. Devotees taking darsan tickets are given, free laddus.Tirupathi laddu is to the size of a skin removed coconut. Ingredients likeghee, spices etc. are much more. Normallydevotees distribute the laddu to neighbours also. Small kids appearing verysmart are compared to Laddu. 7. Ellurunda, In earlier days itwas prepared with black sesame.It is added to jaggery boiled addingghee and made to small balls to the size of gooseberry. Somehow even duringsrardha the quantity prepared was slightly more than serving to bhokthas. If afamily member ask for more ellurunda after srardha is over, it was common totell- Go as bhokhas for srardha. Now it is available in packsin provision stores probably prepared from Kovilpatti in Tamilnadu. Ellurundais also available as candy after skin removed black sesame or using white sesame. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/596092362.1533121.1637206128166%40mail.yahoo.com.
