The puttu is native to Southern part of South India and Sri Lanka. Usually it is made like in cylindrical shape. layered with scraped coconut. The base is Rice flour, salt and water. But its filling is not limited, you can add both sweet and savoury fillings with it. Fruits, Vegetables Fish or Meat depends on your taste and preference.
It is usually served as a breakfast dish often paired with Banana, Palam sugar or with any curries such as channa masala or meat curries
Kerala Puttu / Pittu
Description
Puttu principally consists of coarsely ground rice, grated coconut, little salt and water. It is often spiced with cumin, but may have other spices. The Sri Lankan variant is usually made with wheat flour or red rice flour without cumin, whereas the Bhatkal recipes have plain coconut or masala variant made with mutton or shrimp flavoured grated coconut.
In Bangladesh, the outside is made of a mixture of rice flour and ground moong dal, while the filling is a mixture of coconut flakes and a type of caramelized sugar that is similar to dulce de leche
Ingredients
Instructions
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To make Puttu/Pittu you need some special vessel name Puttu Steamer .It include two Parts a) Puttukudam (Steamer) you can use pressure cooker without weight, If you don’t have the steamer. b) Puttukutty . Its a long steel pipe with a jali and lid. Here we used Chirattaputtu maker instead of this Puttukutty.
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Fill half amount of water in Puttukudam (steamer) / cooker and let it boil and start steam come out
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In a bowl take one cup of rice powder (puttupodi)
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Add required amount of salt and cumin seeds and mix well with hand
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Sprinkle water little and join the ingredients with fingertips to form crumbs
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Some rice powder require equal proportion of rice powder and water (1:1)
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In Puttukutty put the jali in place and add grated coconut and spread it evenly
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Fill half of the Puttukutty with Rice powder mixure then again some grated coconut then again fill rice powder mix and finally on top some more coconut
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Close the Puttukutty and put it on the Puttukudam ( steamer)
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Wailt till the steam come out od the Puttukutty
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You can Switch off the flame and let it wait 2-3 minute
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Now remove the puttukutty from steamer and pull the Putt with a stick
