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Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 5 minutes
- Total time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 puttu
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: kerala
Ingredients
- 2 cup puttu flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾-1 cup water (as required)
- 1 cup coconut (grated)
Method
- firstly in a large bowl take 2 cup puttu flour and ¼ tsp salt. mix well.
- now add ¼ cup water and crumble the flour.
- add water in batches and mix well with your fingertips.
- the flour need to hold shape when pressed between the fist, and need to break on further pressing.
- make a moist flour with crumbly texture.
- break all the lumps with your finger. alternatively, blend it in a mixer for 2 pulses.
- now take a puttu steamer and layer with 2 tbsp of fresh grated coconut.
- followed by 3 tbsp of puttu flour. again layer with 2 tbsp of coconut, 3 tbsp of 3 tbsp of puttu flour.
- lastly add 2 tbsp coconut and level it up.
- close the puttu kutty (cylindrical tube) and steam for 5 minutes or till the steam escapes from top holes of puttu kutty (cylindrical tube).
- carefully open it and push the puttu using a wooden ladle from the back.
- finally, serve kerala puttu hot along with kadala curry.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.