If you love eating, you can surely be a good cook, but to be an excellent one, you should have good critics at home. For that I owe to my husband and my children.

I dedicate this blog to the young ladies - "the starters".

Monday, June 18, 2007

Puttu














Rice flour-1 cup
Wheat flour-1/4cup
Milk -1/4cup
Warm water-1/4cup
Salt
Grated coconut-1cup

In a bowl mix rice and wheat flour,sprinkle a pinch of salt.
Now slowly add milk and rub with your fingers like breadcrumbs.
pour warm water as you rub and see that the flour dosen’t get sticky,
but have a wet look.
Tips
If gets very sticky,sprinkle some rice flour and give it a stir in your
Mixie.Just buy ordinary rice flour(not instant puttu podi).
Keep puttu kudam(pot) on the fire with 2 glasses of water.
Take puttu kutti,put 2tbsp of grated coconut and little sugar.
Now add wet flour till half of the puttukutti,layer it with
Coconut and sugur,again fill it with wet flour top it with
Coconut and sugar,keep the lid and place on top of the pot.
wait for the steam to come keep for 3more minutes on fire.
Release it to a plate and have it with hot kadala curry and
Papadam,banana and honey.

There is variety of cereals you can use to make puttu.
Chamba  rice, puttu podi which is reddish you get
 ready-made mainly from the Kuttanad Kerala.

White rice flour,wheat flour, and tapioca flour puttu
Stuff with vegetable thoran or beef ularthu or
serve it with any curry.
Serve it straight hot.

As Puttu is cooked in steam, it is considered a healthy dish.
Available in mostly all restaurants these days.

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