Rice Puttu (Steamed Rice Cake)
Rice puttu is the culinary specilaity from South India and Sri Lanka. It is
an excellent breakfast recipe, easy to prepare and healthy to eat. Steaming
is the only methoIt is totaly free from oil and prepared from steaming the
rice, that's why healthy to consume frequently.
Ingredients (Serves - 5)
- 1/2 kg: Raw Rice
- 1/2 cup: Coconut, grated
- Water to sprinkle
- Salt to taste
Method
- Soak rice in water for 4 hrs, then drain it and grind it to make
fine powder.
- Heat the powder for 5 mts. While heating stir it. Keep it for
cooling.
- Mix salt with water sprinkle this to the powdered rice just to make
the powder wet. For making puttu special utensil is used named
puttukutty or micro puttu. Put a handful of grated coconut in the
puttukutty and then put rice powder till half then add another handful
of grated coconut.
This is done till the top. Close the lid steam it for 2 mts in cooker.
Serve it with potato curry or ghee.
