- Prepare Time............10 min
- Cook Time..................10
- Serve............................3.
Ingredients
- Rice Flour...............1cup
- Grated Coconut.........1cup
- Warm Water.............1/2 cup
- Salt to Taste
Method
- Roast the rice flour for 5 minutes.Mix rice flour and salt by sprinkling warm water.
- Keep mixing with hands. The entire flour has to be wet.
- ( you can get ready made puttu rice flour at Indian stores)
- Keep water in the bottom of puttu vessel.
- Take the puttu mould add 1 tsp of coconut first followed by4 tsp of rice flour ,then again 2 tsp of coconut.
- Keep layering to fill the mould. Close the lid
- Steam the mould.. When the water boils the steam goes inside and cook the flour.
- Keep up to 4 minutes.Take the vessel in hand .
- Use a skewer(it comes with the vessel) and push the dish out of the mould.
- Serve the puttu hot with kadala curry.
Kadala Curry
Prepare Time.............3 hours
Cook time....................20 min
Serve.............................5
- Brown Chick Peas.......1 cup
- Tamarind Paste............1tsp
- Coconut...................... 3tbsp
- Red Chilli.......................3
- Coriander Seeds...........2tsp
- Chana Dhal....................1tsp
- Turmeric Powder...........1/2 tsp
- Salt to taste.....................
- Curry Leaves...................few
- Tomato ...........................1
- Onion ..............................1
Method
- Soak the chick peas over night. Chop the tomato and onion.
- Fry the chili, coriander seeds and chana dhal.
- Grind this with coconut and keep.
- Cook the chick peas with salt .Add turmeric powder, tamarind paste,tomato and onion.
- Let it boil.
- When everything is cooked add the ground paste and curry leaves,
- Eat hot puttu with this kadala curry.
