Rice Flour Puttu - Easy, Tasty and Healthy !
Puttu is another polite, easy to cook, no oil, steam cooked, good-to-eat and healthy dish. It is good for breakfast or dinner. It is one of the easily digestible food for sick people.
Myself and puttu.. were not very close during my childhood. i remember.. my mother used to make puttu in an aluminium "puttu kuzhaai". those days, even though i was not a big fan of puttu, i enjoyed watching my mother making puttu in that "puttu kuzhaai".. hence the name "kuzhaai puttu". If you do not have a "puttu kuzhaai", you can also make puttu in pressure cooker.
Dumping moist rice flour and coconut in layers in the "puttu kuzhaai", then steaming it.. watching the aromatic steady-steam coming out of the tiny holes in the lid of puttu maker.. very nostalgic. later.. removing it from heat, pushing out the hot puttu from the puttu kuzhaai with vadai kambi.. awesome puttu !! When i see the freshly steamed puttu.. it reminds me of "thumbai poo" (the picture of it is at the end of this post) 😀.
If you were born in a house where they make puttu/idli at home.. then you can easily relate yourself when i say.. sometimes simple native foods remain evergreen in our memories than these days' fusion foods or imported recipes.
During my college days.. i lost touch with puttu. You know.. sometimes we never know the value of good food when we are young. Later in life, at times, when you have to cook your food, that is when you really want to cook these native food which you ate in your childhood.. when you were really worry less.. most of the time happy hormones in your body. Likewise I started making this puttu again after my marriage.
I generally make puttu with regular raw rice or red rice. My mother says they make with boiled rice too. The red rice flour puttu has more flavour to it than the white raw rice puttu. The red rice puttu takes five more minutes to cook than the white puttu. I generally used to make the puttu flour at home. But sometimes, I use store bought puttu flour or even regular rice flour will be good enough.
i always like the puttu with jaggery and lots of coconut gratings. A dash of freshly ground cardamom powder and good ghee gives this puttu a "right-from-the-heaven" effect.
I do not have the traditional puttu maker or the puttu kuzhaai. But I have theses two types of puttu maker which had to be fitted on the pressure cooker nozzle.
We can also steam cook it like idli on idli plates or in a bowl which can be placed directly in pressure cooker. When you use the above method to make puttu.. forget not to cover the puttu flour with a thin cloth so that steam water condensing on the lid will not drip directly on the puttu and spoil it.
When we had to make big batches of puttu, we generally used to take cloth bigger than the container size in which it is cooked, add the puttu flour, cover up the puttu with the excess cloth and pressure cook it.
This is how i make puttu..
Click here for the recipe for - Rice flour for puttu.
I generally make puttu with regular raw rice or red rice. My mother says they make with boiled rice too. The red rice flour puttu has more flavour to it than the white raw rice puttu. The red rice puttu takes five more minutes to cook than the white puttu. I generally used to make the puttu flour at home. But sometimes, I use store bought puttu flour or even regular rice flour will be good enough.
i always like the puttu with jaggery and lots of coconut gratings. A dash of freshly ground cardamom powder and good ghee gives this puttu a "right-from-the-heaven" effect.
I do not have the traditional puttu maker or the puttu kuzhaai. But I have theses two types of puttu maker which had to be fitted on the pressure cooker nozzle.
We can also steam cook it like idli on idli plates or in a bowl which can be placed directly in pressure cooker. When you use the above method to make puttu.. forget not to cover the puttu flour with a thin cloth so that steam water condensing on the lid will not drip directly on the puttu and spoil it.
When we had to make big batches of puttu, we generally used to take cloth bigger than the container size in which it is cooked, add the puttu flour, cover up the puttu with the excess cloth and pressure cook it.
This is how i make puttu..
Click here for the recipe for - Rice flour for puttu.
Ingredients:
- puttu flour
- coconut grating
- jaggery or sugar
- cardamom powder
- ghee
- salt
- water
Procedure:
- take the puttu flour with a pinch of salt in a wide container.
- sprinkle water little at a time and mix it.
- the rice flour should become like bread crumbs and not like any dough.
- the way to find out that our rice flour is in right consistency is by taking a fist full of moist rice flour and holding it tight. the flour should hold its shape like our fist. It should crumble off when pressed gently.
- now at this consistency, cover the puttu flour and keep aside for 5 minutes.
- after 5 minutes, add few spoons of coconut grating into the puttu kuzhaai, followed but puttu flour till half way, then, again coconut gratings and fill rest with puttu flour. finish it up with coconut grating in the top.
- cover it and steam cook this. Puttu will be ready in 7-10 minutes.
- once ready, mix this hot puttu with jaggery, cardamom powder and ghee and serve it.
- you can also mix pappadam and boiled chick peas and eat this puttu, or make some nice kadala curry and eat it along with puttu.
Below are the pictures of making red rice puttu.
By the way.. this is the "thumbai poo" - Lucas aspera which i mentioned above.. comparing the fresh white rice puttu with..
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| Pic courtesy Google |
Happy cooking !!
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