{"id":4834,"date":"2020-08-01T20:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2020-08-01T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T05:32:43","slug":"koozh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/koozh\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadi Koozh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Koozh<\/strong> (\u0b95\u0bc2\u0bb4\u0bcd)\u00a0is the Tamil name for a\u00a0porridge<\/a>\u00a0made from\u00a0millet<\/a> (Ragi). In\u00a0Tamil Nadu<\/a>,\u00a0koozh is consumed as breakfast or lunch. Koozh is made from\u00a0Kezhvaragu<\/a><\/em>\u00a0flour and\u00a0broken rice<\/a> in a clay pot. Koozh is usually made in large batches and gives a sour tang flavor if fermented and is a special festival dish for the auspicious Aadi month, served accompanied by Moringa leaf poriyal <\/a>(thoran).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Ragi flour          :1 Cup<\/li>
  2. Coarse raw rice flour     : 1 Tbl – Sp<\/li>
  3. Water   : 7 Cup<\/li>
  4. Salt<\/li>
  5. Finely chopped onion<\/li>
  6. Chopped green chilly<\/li>
  7. Plain Yogurt<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Method<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Dilute ragi flour with 2 cup of water and keep it for minimum 5 hours for fermentation.<\/li>
    • Heat 5 cup of water and add the raw rice flour and cook it until soft.<\/li>
    • Then add the diluted ragi flour along with the water.<\/li>
    • Cook it very well to get a semi-thick mixture; it will take about 15 minutes,<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      • Keep it for about 5-6 hours or keep it overnight.<\/li>
      • Take enough quantity of ragi mixture and dilute it with plain yogurt and water.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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        • Add salt, chopped onion and green chili and mix.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Tips:-<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          • If you don\u2019t have time, skip the fermentation and overnight resting time. Cook it with 7 cup of water and let it cool completely, then add yogurt, onion and green chilly.<\/li>
          • In the actual koozh recipe, fermenting the flour in the morning, cooking it in the night and keeping overnight is the tradition<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Koozh (\u0b95\u0bc2\u0bb4\u0bcd)\u00a0is the Tamil name for a\u00a0porridge\u00a0made from\u00a0millet (Ragi). In\u00a0Tamil Nadu,\u00a0koozh is consumed as breakfast or lunch. Koozh is made from\u00a0Kezhvaragu\u00a0flour and\u00a0broken rice in a clay pot. Koozh is usually made in large batches and gives a sour tang flavor if fermented and is a special festival dish for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breakfast-specials","category-healthy-diet","category-tamil-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}