Steps
Step-by-step
1 Grate the coconut flesh finely. 2 Mix the puttu powder and salt in a wide bowl. Add half of the grated coconut. 3 Rub the mixture with your fingertips, sprinkling in water until it is moist and develops a coarse texture. 4 Leave the mixture for an hour if the flour is ready made, as it absorbs more water. 5 Check the consistency of the flour. One should be able to make a ball out of the flour that can be easily crumbled. Adjust the water content accordingly. 6 Spread a little coconut over the bottom of the puttu vessel (puttu kutti), and fill it with the moist flour. Layer it with coconut. 7 Steam it on the puttu vessel or on the pressure cooker nozzle. In a few minutes, steam will start escaping through the top of the puttu vessel. It will be done in 4 minutes. 8 Serve hot with kadala curry, boiled green gram and pappad (payarum pappadavum), or with steamed bananas. Notes * Rice, wheat, corn, ragi, or tapioca flours can all be used to make puttu. Category:Indian recipes Category:Vegetarian recipes Category:Recipes using coconut Category:Recipes using rice flour
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Source: Wikibooks Cookbook
