Jelsar Cuisines: Prawns Chakkoli / Shrimp Chakkoli / Prawns and Rice dumplings in Coconut sauce

Chakkoli is a popular dish for muslims in kanyakumari district and kerala. But in kerala it is known as thakkidi. This dish consumes some time to prepare but the outcome cannot be expressed by words. The procedure may seem to look complicated. Its nothing but three major steps involved.

Prepare the prawns gravy with roasted coconut and spices.
Make small rice flour dumplings out of a dough
Cook the rice dumplings in the prawns gravy.

Shaping the rice dumplings takes little more time if you are a beginner but you will speed up when making again and again. Gather your family members for making rice flour dumplings, it will reduce the time for preparing chakkoli as well as there will be fun around. Definitely this dish will be very tempting which will you eat more and more so preparing this won't make you bored since the end result will be just out of the world. Even you can prepare this dish with mutton, chicken or beef. There is another way to prepare this dish.Very soon we will post that too. Hope you guys will surely try this yummy yummy dish and we expect your feedback.

Preparation Time: 25 mins
Cooking Time: 25 mins
Serves: 3 or 4

Ingredients:

Prawns- 15
Onion- 1 big sliced
Tomato- 1 sliced
Green chilli- 1
Ginger Garlic paste- 1 tbsp
Chilli powder- 2 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder- 1 tsp
Fennel powder- 1.5 tsp
Garam masala- 1 tsp
Oil- 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Curry leaves- few

To Roast and Grind:

Coconut- 1 cup (grated)
Dry red chilli- 2
Fennel seeds- 1.5 tbsp
Shallots/Small onion- 6
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon- 2 inch piece

For Making the Dough for Dumplings:

Roti flour /Roasted rice flour- 1.5 cup
Water- 2 cup
Fennel seeds- 1/2 tsp
Coconut- 1/2 cup
Salt a pinch

For Tempering:

Oil- 2 tsp
Onion- 1/ 2 chopped
Ginger Garlic paste- 1 tbsp
Curry leaves- few

Procedure:

1. In a wide kadai, heat oil and add in the sliced onions. Saute it well.

2. Once the onions turns translucent, add in the sliced tomatoes, green chilli and saute well. Next add the ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell leaves.

3. Now add in the spices one by one and mix well. Next add the prawns and give a good mix. When the masalas are mixed well with the prawns, add quarter cup of water. Let it cook for few minutes. Sprinkle some curry leaves over it. The addition of curry leaves gives good flavour. So do not skip it. Once the prawns are cooked, close it with a lid and switch off the flame.

4. You can do this step while you are cooking the prawns. Heat a kadai, add in the ingredients given under 'To Roast and Grind' and roast till the coconut begins to change colour. Then switch off the flame and allow it to cool.

5. Once it cools a bit, grind it to a smooth paste by adding little water. Then add this paste to the prawns gravy and cook for 2 minutes and switch off the heat. Now lets start to make the dumplings.

6. To make the dumplings, Bring the water to boil,add salt to it. When the water begins to rolling boil, slowly add the flour and mix it well. Remove it from the stove. Once it is cools a little bit, knead the dough with your hand. But don't wait till it cools completely. You must knead it in bearable heat. You may dip your hands in water in between if you cant bear the heat.

7. Now make small bowls out of the dough and press it with your palm. The size of the balls is as per your choice. But traditionally you make very small flattened balls.

8. Add the dumplings to the prepared prawns gravy and cook for 10 minutes on medium flame till the rice balls are cooked. At this point the rice balls and the gravy mixes well and gets thickened. That is the consistency we need.

9. In a pan, heat oil and make the tempering using onions, curry leaves and ginger garlic paste. Its tastes better if the onions are slightly browned.