Kunji Pathiri and Kunjunda

Kunji Pathiri and Kunjunda recipe is with step by step pictures. Kunji pathiri and Kunjunda are very small rice dumplings made with rice flour. Kunji pathiri and Kunjunda can be served for breakfast or lunch or can served as a snack.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Kunjunda and Kunji Pathiri.

Ingredients :-

Rice flour /pathiri podi. -2 cups
Onion.                           -1
White onion.                 -1
Green chilly.                 -3
Curry leaves.                 -few
Grated coconut.             -1 cup
Turmeric powder.          -1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds.               -1tsp
Water.                             -as needed
Salt.                                -to taste
Ghee or oil                     -1tsp

Method:-

1). In a wide bottom pan add 2 &1/2 cup of water,1tsp ghee or oil, little salt and boil on low flame. Add 2 cups of rice flour/ pathiri podi into the boiling water and stir well on low flame till the rice flour mix with water and form a dough. Once cooled grease your palm with little oil and knead the rice dough well. Make very small dough balls /kunjunda with the rice dough. Keep the small dough balls / kunjunda on a plate.

2). Grease your hand with little oil and take one small rice dough ball / kunjunda and slightly press it between your thumb and index finger to make kunji pathiri. Make kunji pathiri with the small rice dough balls and keep them on plate.

3). Boil sufficient water in a steamer. Place the kunjunda and kunji pathiri on a steamer plate. Cover the steamer and steam cook them for 10 minutes on medium flame. Remove the steamed kunjunda and kunji pathiri from steamer and allow them to cool.

4). Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan.Splutter mustard seeds. Add thinly chopped green chillies, chopped red onion and chopped white onion into the pan and saute well till onions turn translucent.

5). Add curry leaves and grated coconut into the pan and mix well.

6). Add required salt and turmeric powder and mix well.

7). Add steamed kunji pathiri into the pan and mix well.

8). Add steamed kunjunda into the pan and mix with steamed kunji pathiri.

9). Mix the steamed kunji pathiri and kunjunda with all the ingredients in the pan till everything combined and switch of the flame.

. 10). Transfer the Kunji pathiri and kunjunda to a serving vessel.

11). Kunji Pathiri and Kunjunda are ready to serve for breakfast or lunch or as a snack.

 Try the Kunji Pathiri and Kunjunda recipe and enjoy the tasty breakfast or lunch or snack.