Sweets & snacks
Kozhakkatta
Steamed rice dumplings stuffed with coconut and jaggery, offered at Ganesh and family hearths.
About
Kozhakkatta are steamed rice-flour dumplings, usually filled with coconut-jaggery and sometimes made savoury with coconut and cumin. They are a Kerala tea snack and a ritual food, close to the Tamil kozhukattai and the Ganesh modak.
Course
Snack / offering
Region
Statewide
Typically with
Tea, festival offerings
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