Keppai Koozh | Ragi Koozh Recipe | Healthy Summer Breakfast

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Ragi Koozh is summer friendly, healthy and divine porridge recipe. It’s a perfect cooling drinkand has excellent amount of iron, complex protein and vitamin B. It is very famous in Tamil Nadu as a nutritious one pot meal. It is distributed as prasadam in temples especially during Tamil Aadi month. Its also commonly made and sold by street vendors. Try this gluten free, diabetic friendly delicious Ragi Koozh at your home and beat the scorching summer heat.

Ingredients

Ragi flour - 2 cups

Raw rice - ¼ cup

Onion chopped - ½ cup

Yoghurt - 1 cup

Salt to taste

Instructions

1.

In a mixing bowl, add ragi flour

2.

Add enough water and mix well so that there is no lumps

3.

Allow to ferment overnight

4.

Next day morning, cook raw rice and blend it in a mixer coarsely and set aside

5.

Chop finely onion, green chilly (optional) to slices

6.

Keep the yoghurt ready

7.

Now add the fermented ragi mixture to a thick bottomed pan

8.

Keep the flame in medium and stir

9.

Once it starts boiling, the mixture starts thickening

10.

Add enough water and continue stirring continuously

11.

Take care the mixture doesn’t stick to bottom and form lumps

12.

So add water accordingly and stir with a wooden spatula

13.

It takes approximately 5 to 7 mins to cook completely

14.

Turn off the flame

15.

Allow to cool

16.

Now add mashed and cooked rice

17.

Add salt and mix

18.

That’s it…thick Ragi Koozh is ready

19.

To make it drinking consistency, scoop 2 to 3 ladles of thick ragi mixture in a bowl

20.

Add buttermilk or yoghurt with little water and sprinkle sliced onions and green chilly (optional)

21.

Mix well

22.

Serve warm or chilled

23.

Fresh and delicious Ragi Koozh is ready to beat this scorching summer

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