Puttu - A breakfast item common in Kerala and Southern TamilNadu.
Generally rice flour is steamed with shredded cocount and served with sugar / banana / spicy kadalai curry.
Generally rice flour is steamed with shredded cocount and served with sugar / banana / spicy kadalai curry.
Kuzha puttu - A puttu resembling a pipe.
There are many ways to steam this puttu. We can use a simple cloth over hot steam or idly making plates or this special tool 'puttu kudam' for steaming the flour.
The most authentic and tasty variety of puttu is made by using the red rice flour (rose matta arisi or sivappu samba rice).
I used the store bought ready made red rice flour (double roasted). Instead we can roast the ordinary white rice also.Some people prepare the flour from scratch by soaking and dry grinding the rice.
Puttu maker in box along with the ingredients.
(2010 pics)
Puttu maker consists of 2 main parts: The puttu kuzhal (to fill the processed rice flour) and kudam (to fill water and generate steam).
Puttu served. The white coconut is the frozen shredded coconut and the darker one is what I got from fresh coconut:)
Ingredients:
(For 3 kuzha puttu)
Red rice flour - 1 1/2 cup
1 puttu = 1/2 cup rice flour
(If not readymade, roast it till we get a pleasant smell and the grains look very flowy)
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Shredded coconut - 1 cup
(Coconut should be almost equal to that of rice flour.We can reduce it too, but we can't get the real taste.)
Water - 1 cup ( at room temp)
Method:
Fill the puttu kudam (the broader vessel) with water to its 3/4 th. Close the top with the given lid that has the nozzle.
Start heating it.
Put the roasted rice flour in a mixing bowl.
Slowly sprinkle the water and mix well without any lumps.
The consistency should be such that we should be able to make a solid with the flour, but the solid should be breakable in to flour when touched gently.
Totally we should get a wet flour but not any lumpy.
Take the puttu kuzhal. Fill the bottom with 2 tsp shredded coconut. Then put the prepared flour and fill half way very loosely. Again spread 2 tsp coconut and fill the pipe with prepared rice flour. Again put 3 tbsp puttu flour. Then 1.5 tbsp coconut at top.
Now check if the steam starts hushing out of the puttu kudam.
Close the puttu kuzhal .Make some holes in the filled flour using the stick given and fit it over the nozzle.
Heat till we see steam out of the top of puttu maker.
Then continue heating for 5 minutes after steam comes off the top (totally 10 mins) and switch off.
Carefully take out and serve immediately.
Kuzha puttu is ready!
Serving suggestions:
Serve hot with sugar and banana.
Other combination are channa masala (kadalai curry), green gram chundal etc.
Note:
Try to serve the puttu immediately otherwise it may turn hard. Reheating in microwave helps a bit.
(If not readymade, roast it till we get a pleasant smell and the grains look very flowy)
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Shredded coconut - 1 cup
(Coconut should be almost equal to that of rice flour.We can reduce it too, but we can't get the real taste.)
Water - 1 cup ( at room temp)
Method:
Fill the puttu kudam (the broader vessel) with water to its 3/4 th. Close the top with the given lid that has the nozzle.
Start heating it.
Put the roasted rice flour in a mixing bowl.
Mix salt with the rice flour.
Slowly sprinkle the water and mix well without any lumps.
The consistency should be such that we should be able to make a solid with the flour, but the solid should be breakable in to flour when touched gently.
Totally we should get a wet flour but not any lumpy.
Take the puttu kuzhal. Fill the bottom with 2 tsp shredded coconut. Then put the prepared flour and fill half way very loosely. Again spread 2 tsp coconut and fill the pipe with prepared rice flour. Again put 3 tbsp puttu flour. Then 1.5 tbsp coconut at top.
Now check if the steam starts hushing out of the puttu kudam.
Close the puttu kuzhal .Make some holes in the filled flour using the stick given and fit it over the nozzle.
Heat till we see steam out of the top of puttu maker.
Then continue heating for 5 minutes after steam comes off the top (totally 10 mins) and switch off.
Carefully take out and serve immediately.
Kuzha puttu is ready!
Serving suggestions:
Serve hot with sugar and banana.
Other combination are channa masala (kadalai curry), green gram chundal etc.
Note:
Try to serve the puttu immediately otherwise it may turn hard. Reheating in microwave helps a bit.
