Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, puttu recipe | puttu with puttu maker | how to make kerala puttu recipe is a vegetarian kerala breakfast made with puttu flour, salt, and water in about 15 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
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.
