Patoli Recipe | Pattoleo Recipe | Coconut, Jaggery And Rice Dumplings Wrapped And Steamed In Turmeric Leaves

Pattoleo or patoli or patolyo or coconut and rice dumplings steamed in turmeric leaves is a traditional Goan food normally made on special occasions like Shravan Sunday or on 1st day of Ganesh Chaturthi. Shravan is an auspicious month in India which comes during mid or beginning of August. As soon as the monsoons start, you see everything green around. You see life everywhere and new things start growing.

During this month, various festivals are held like Nagapanchami, Janmashtami, Varamahalakshmi, etc. Along with these festivals, we Goans also worship the Sun god on shravan Sunday. We call it “Aitaar poojan”. Aitaar means Sunday. During the Shravan Sundays we make various sweet dishes at home and Pattoloe or patolyo are normally made on the first Shravan Sunday. During this Shravan Sunday, married ladies collect flowers and different types of leaves. They also make a small art work with palm leaf and offer it to Sun god. They eat veg food during the Shravan Sunday and pray for the longevity of their husband.

I wanted to make this dish since a long time. But I could not find turmeric leaves in Bangalore. Last week my parents visited me and they got lots of turmeric leaves from our backyard in Goa. I did a secret happy dance after seeing these leaves.

Today when I prepared these pattoleo, we did a team work at home. My hubby and my little princess sat and spread the rice flour dough on the turmeric leaves. I added the grated coconut mixture, sealed them and steamed them. Hubby later offered it to god as neivedyam as it was a Sunday too. After that we all consumed it. Little one was very excited to make them. She loved them and all the while she kept singing “Patoli patoli… “ 🙂

I have made these using rice flour. Some people soak rice overnight, grind it and then follow the same process. I just went the short-cut way.

Oh the smell of turmeric leaves while the dumplings get steamed is divine. The flavor of turmeric leaves gets seeped into the rice flour while steaming and enhances the taste of patoli. Do try this delicious dish and let me know your thoughts. You can share the pictures with me via email or send it to me on Facebook.

Ingredients:                                   Makes 15 patoli, Prep. Time: 1 hour
15 turmeric leaves
1 cup rice flour
2 cups water
¼ teaspoon salt
2 cups freshly grated coconut
5 cardamom pods, peeled and crushed
¾ cup grated jaggery
Salt to taste

Hot steaming patolyo or patolleo made today specially for Shravan sunday known as “aitar poojan”. Shravan is an auspicious month in India and in Goa we worship the sun God on Sunday. Patolleo are normally prepared on first Shravan sunday, I got a bit delayed as I did not have turmeric leaves. My dad got these from Goa during his visit last week. Enjoy the hot steaming patolleo. My house is filled with divine fragrance of the turmeric leaves. We make this dish with rice flour, grated coconut, jaggery and cardamom powder. These are stuffed in layer inside the turmeric leaves and steamed. Detailed recipe will be up soon. Till then enjoy the video. #sunday #goa #auspicious #holymonth #indianfoodblogger #bangalorediaries #foodporn #turmeric #turmericleaves

A video posted by Raksha Kamat (@rakshaskitchen) on Aug 21, 2016 at 1:25am PDT

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