Easy Palathalikalu - with Stepwise pictures - Paal kozhukattai

Palathalikalu(paal kozhukattai) is a  Popular Andhra sweet dessert made during festive occasions like varalakhsmi vratham, Polala Amavasya vratham & vinayaka chaturthi. It is prepared with coconut, jaggery(bellam) and milk. Thalikalu means  noodles. Normally people makes thin stripes at hand and they steam cook it. it is a time consuming method. Here i have explained easy method to make thalikalu using jantikalu press.Now we see the steps to make it.

Palathalikalu

Ingredients

For making thalikalu(rice noodles)

Rice flour - 1/2 cup.

salt - as required.

water - 1 cup.

Jaggery - 2 tbsp

For making sauce

Boiled Milk - 1 + 1/2 cup.

water - 1 + 1/2 cup.

Grated Jaggery - 3/4   cup.

For making paste 

cashews - 10.

khuz khuz - 2 tsp.

coconut - 1/4 cup.

Preparation 

• Take a kadai add 1 cup of water and 2 tbsp of jaggery, when jaggery melts and water starts boiling, add rice flour and salt and keep it in a sim mode for 10 min, then transfer it to plate, sprinkle some water to make a soft pliable  dough, knead it well  and keep it aside.

• soak cashews and khuz khuz in a hot water for 15 minutes,then grind it into a smooth paste with coconut.

Method

• Take a thick bottomed vessel, add milk & water. when  it starts boiling, take the jantikalu press(murukku press) and place the soft dough that we made already and squeeze the press in a circular motion,   to get rice strings(thalikalu)  over the milk,as shown in the picture.

• let it boil in the milk, at a minimum flame,till rice noodles are cooked,it takes  approx 10 min.

• Now add smooth  paste that we made  already.let it boil for 2 more minutes.
• Finally add jaggery cook for few minutes till jaggery melts. Now Paalathalikalu is ready to serve.

Note:

• Add coconut paste & jaggery  at the last,else milk may get curdled.
• Take milk and water in equal ratio to boil, thalikalu gets cooked well when you add water.
• if you want you can crush the cardomom and add to it, at the last.
• you can also shape the strings(thalikalu) by hand at 1 or 1+1/2 inch height or you can  make the dough into  small balls.