Prepration time: 15 Minutes
Persons served: 4 Persons
Cuisine: Kerala
ingredients
- Raw Rice(Pachari) - 1/2 kg
- or Rice flour : 2cups
- Grated Coconut – 3/4 to 1 cup
- Water – 1/2 – 3/4 cup
- Salt
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Puttu aka “rice steamed cake” is one of Kerala’s traditional breakfast item. Kerala Puttu is usually served with Banana, pappadam or Kadala curry.
Puttu is one of the favorite breakfast in Kerala which is also very easy to make. Now a days you can even buy ready to use puttu powder (flour) in all the stores. There are many variants of puttu like Chiratta puttu, Kappa puttu, Rava puttu etc… Here is the recipe for making the common puttu.
Puttu recipe
- Soak rice for about 2 hours (You can skip directly to step 4 if you are starting with rice flour).
- Drain the water completely and dry the wet rice in a cool place and grind it to coarse powder.
- In a pan heat the rice powder for 3-4 minutes but do not roast and let it cool.
- In a large bowl, take the powder and sprinkle water on the flour (Be careful in mixing water. The perfect combination of water and rice powder gives the good result).
- Add salt to taste and mix it thoroughly with hand. (It should be a bread crumb consistency and not form a dough.)
- In a Puttu Kutti (Puttu making vessel easily available in the market) add 2 cups water to the bottom vessel of the puttu maker and allow to simmer till hot. Place the round perforated disc with holes inside the puttu maker such that it fits well at the bottom of the mould. Place 1 layer of grated coconut at the bottom of the puttu maker. Carefully and slowly add about 6 tbsps of the puttu powder from a height followed by another layer of grated coconut. Again you can layer with 6 tbsps of puttu powder and finish off with 1 layer of grated coconut on the top. Place the lid over the puttu mould and place the mould over the bottom vessel.
Puttu Maker
- Steam it for 10 minutes.
- Serve hot with Ground nut (Kadala Curry), Green gram curry (Cheru payar), Cowpea ( Vanpayar ) curry or Mutta ( Egg ) Curry.
Tips
- Fill the rice and coconut as loose layers.
- Serve hot/warm with banana or curry of your choice or with pappadam.
- If you add some ghee it will yields soft puttu.
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I'm Renoos, officially called as Dr Regina M, a doctor at profession, good wife at home and a budding cook in Kitchen. I'm completely in love with food and you'll most likely find me covered in flour, chocolate or both if I am not at the hospital :)
July 11, 2013 at 4:05 pm
great food to have..Keep it up:)
July 11, 2013 at 4:32 pm
Thank you Gowri Sankar.
July 31, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Hello Kitchen Doctor,
We are back and hungry as ever – made this wonderful puttu (steaming steaming hot) with chettinad chicken – simpllllllllllllly lip smacking good. Thanks a tonne! K D (borrowed the puttu maker from chechi, our neighbor) thanks to chechi as well.
October 22, 2013 at 6:28 pm
I think godhambu (wheat)puttu also good.
November 20, 2013 at 10:22 am
Awesome
Recipe
January 12, 2014 at 4:13 am
good breakfast
October 10, 2014 at 8:59 am
Nice easy to understand.
February 29, 2016 at 9:35 pm
Hello,
Dis is nice and very easy recipe for an amateur like me. I just have a few questions, do I need to dry the wet rice completely before grinding?? And do I need to heat the coarse rice powder on high heat???
March 22, 2016 at 8:27 pm
@snya: It is not mandatory to make it completely dry before grinding. But, at home we practice drying the rice completely before grinding. Also, If you are planning to use the powder for very next day, you don’t need to roast it in high heat. You can just warm it and use it. But if you are planning to keep the powder for long time, it is better to roast it and keep it.
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January 12, 2017 at 4:43 pm
good regina ……….how is good puttu podi making and marketing any idea
February 9, 2018 at 8:05 pm
No Idea on marketing Santhosh 😉
September 12, 2017 at 12:12 am
Thank you, your recipe was helpful:)
October 17, 2017 at 10:38 pm
Happy to hear that Geetha 🙂