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    Home > Festival Dishes > Gopalkala – Janmastami Special

    Gopalkala – Janmastami Special

    Last updated September 3, 2015. Originally posted September 3, 2015 By Jyothi Rajesh 7 Comments

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    It’s in tradition that we use beaten rice dishes for Janmastami pooja. There is a belief that our Makkhan Chor was very fond of butter.

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    One of the most popular offering to Lord Krishna on Janmastami is Gopalkala. Gopalkala is a savory dish made of beaten rice, cucumbers, green chilies, coconut and the tempering is done using ghee. This is just like curd rice, the only difference is beaten rice is used.

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    Beaten rice is supposedly believed to be one of the favorite ingredients used in making sweets and savory dishes we offer to Krishna. Along with poha/aval/beaten rice, milk based sweets like Kheer/payasam mad eof beaten rice, seedai(rice flour balls deep fried), Makkan Misri(sweet made of butter, sugar and some pistachios), Kalakhand are some of the popular Janmastami special dishes.

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    Gopalakala not just a scrumptious dish but is also very nutritive.The whole dish is very easy to pull together in just 15 minutes.

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    This dish is not supposed to be made just during Janmastami, I say we make it quite often weekly 3 times! 😀 This is so simple dish and easy to make. Makes a perfect light lunch recipe. 😀 Curd rice is a very popular lunch option, and with this Gopalkala you don’t even have to take the pain of cooking rice and waiting for it. Just soak beaten rice, mix with cool and refreshing cucumbers and coconut, and temper the other ingredients with ghee. So good! Are you promising me that you will make this on regular basis? Oh good! 😉

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    Here’s gopalkala – Janmastami special recipe

    Ingredients:-

    Beaten Rice – 1 cup

    Curd/yogurt – ¾ cup
    Chopped Cucumber – ½ cup
    Grated coconut – 3 tbspn
    Ginger – 1 inch piece finely chopped
    Salt to taste
    Coriander leaves to garnish

    To temper-
    Ghee – 1 tspn
    Mustard seeds – ½ tspn
    Cumin seeds – ½ tspn
    Green chilies – 3-4 nos

    Instructions:-

    1. Soak beaten rice in water for about 1-2 minutes, the variety of beaten rice i used required just about 2 minutes to soften. Check the variety of beaten rice you use, and the time needed to soak in water until it softens.

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    2. Once beaten rice/poha softens, drain all the water. Keep aside for a minute until all water is drained off.

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    3. Mean while heat ghee in a pan, to hot ghee add mustard seeds allow it to crackle. Next add cumin seeds, green chilies, ginger pieces and fry for a minute.

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    4. Add the temper to the beaten rice, along with curd, finely chopped cucumbers, grated coconut, salt to taste and very gently toss/mix until well combined.

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    5. Finally add some chopped coriander leaves as garnish. That’s it.

    Offer Gopalkala to Sri Krishna. And then you can relish it. 😀

     

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    1. Sathya @Mykitchenodyssey

      September 04, 2015 at 1:39 am

      Thats interesting dish jyothi.Caught by it name.Sure will help me sometimes.wonderful share .

      Reply
      • jyothirajesh

        September 04, 2015 at 11:29 pm

        Thank you Sathya. This has to be made regularly, so easy and delicious dish

        Reply
    2. kushi

      September 04, 2015 at 12:48 am

      This looks so healthy and YUM. I like anything that is spicy and will definitely try this. love the presentation as always. Its amazing dear

      Reply
      • jyothirajesh

        September 04, 2015 at 11:30 pm

        Thank you very much dear Kushi. You must try this dear, it’s so simple and delicious!

        Reply
    3. Framed Recipes

      September 03, 2015 at 9:34 pm

      Jyothi, What lovely props! I have not tried the spicy version of yogurt and poha. Looks interesting. Will surely give it a try. – Sreelatha

      Reply
      • jyothirajesh

        September 03, 2015 at 11:15 pm

        Thank you very much dear. Do try it, you’ll love it

        Reply

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      September 4, 2015 at 11:34 pm

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