Puttu

Cuisine Style: Kerala, Cooking Time: 25 minutes, To Serve: 2, Take with: Kadala Kari / Mutta Curry, Type: Breakfast

Ingredients

Preparation

Soak rice 2 hours.
Drain the water. Dry the wet rice in a cool place (Don’t expose in a direct sunlight) then grind it to coarse powder.
In a pan heat the rice powder for 3 minutes (Do not roast).
Keep the powder aside to cool.
Sprinkle water (Be careful in mixing water. The perfect combination of water and rice powder gives the good result).
Add salt to taste.
In a Puttu Kutti (Puttu making vessel easily available in the market) loosely fill rice and coconut as layers.
Boil it for 10 minutes.
Mix ghee (Optional).
Serve hot with Kadala Kari or Mutta Curry

Note

Mixing of Jaggery and Cardamom (Elachi) gives you sweet Puttu (Should not mix salt). No side dish required.

Tip

Rosematta rice (Tamilnadu traditional rice available in all departmental store) can be used for healthy breakfast.

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