Puttu - Kerala style (Steam Cake)

Ingredients

 

Rice flour -1 1/2 cup

Salt

Water - 1/2 cup

Grated coconut - 1 cup

In a bowl, add rice flour, hot water with little salt in it. Mix it really well. Make sure to use enough water as we don't need too much of water. But at the same time rice flour should be wet enough to get the right consistency. Make sure you have a puttu maker or puttu kutti before you start. Pour 4-5 cups of water in puttu maker in the bottom vessel. Then for top part, you will find a round shaped disc with holes which we need to fix at the bottom of the top part of this vessel. Here we need to add 2-3 tablespoon of grated coconut first and then 5-6 tablespoon of the mixed flour. Again keep adding grated coconut and then flour. Finally add grated coconut on top of it and make sure to cover the vessel with lid. Once water in the bottom part of the puttu maker is hot enough, slowly fix the upper part of the vessel and make sure this is fixed well as we don't want the steam to go out in between the top and upper  part of the vessel.

After 6-7 minutes, slowly remove top part of the vessel using handle of puttu maker. Take out the lid. And using a knife or any long stick push the disc at the bottom  of the vessel so that entire puttu comes out of the cylindrical shaped vessel without breaking  it. Try to do this with little  patience :) as we don't want the puttu to break in between. Very easy to make once tried. Also Kerala puttu is famous with kadala curry , chicken curry or egg curry. You can always try any curry with this. This is a common breakfast recipe for keralites. One of my colleague from Andhra Pradesh was asking me to get puttu and kadala curry once as he still remember this awesome dish which he had from his childhood from Malayali neighbors. :) I promised him to get this one day to office. Guys, please try it out since this one is an easy and healthy recipe.