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Puttu - Steamed Rice with Coconut
Ingredients
Serves:6
Puttu is probably the most common breakfast food in Kerala's roadside teashops.
You will need a puttukutti,which is available in South Indian stores,to prepare this.
2 1/2 cups rice flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 medium-sized,fresh coconut,grated
Method of Preparation
- Mix rice flour,salt,3/4 cup water and a handful of coconut till rice flour is thoroughly soaked and smooth.
- Put a 3-cm layer of grated coconut at the base of a puttukutti and cover with a 6-cm layer of rice flour.Repeat layering till puttukutti is full.
- Fit puttukutti onto the metal utensil holding warm water.Raise heat and steam for 10 minutes.
- Serve with Bengal gram curry,or potato or chicken mapas,and pappadum.
- Note:Puttu can also be eaten with ripe bananas.Generally,the sweet-sour variety called palayankodan is preferred.
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