INGREDIENTS: - Nirapara Chemba Puttu Podi - 1 1/2 cup
- Warm water to moisten the flour - 3/4 cup
- Freshly grated coconut- 1/2 cup
- Salt to taste- 1/2 tsp
METHOD :
- In a large bowl,take the Chemba Puttu podi and mix well with enough salt.
- Sprinkle water in puttu podi and mix it well.
- Keep on sprinkling water and continue mixing, till the whole flour is wet enough. You can confirm this by making lumps when you clasp but can be easily crumbled.(But not like chapathi dough to stick firm).
- After the mixture has enough moisture, crumble all the lumps if formed during the mixing, this helps make the puttu very soft. This can be easily done by running it in a mixer for a few seconds.
- Add 2 cups of water in Puttukudam means not more than half of its capacity.
- This has an alternative of using just the puttukutti on a cooker. The cooker acts like a puttukudam from which the steam comes out through the whistle and is passed into the puttukudam to get the puttu cooked.
- Place Putu chillu on the puttukuty and add 1 or 2 tbsp of grated coconut in the Puttukutty . Now add a handful of the chemba puttu Podi/mixed flour, now add another layer of grated coconut and continue the cycle till the puttukutti is full.
- Any kind of filling can be kept like meat called irachi puttu or cardamom-coconut-jaggery mix to make sweet puttu. You keep the coconut filling, it helps make the puttu softer.
- Now close the lid and place the Puttukutti on the Puttukuddam while steam starts coming from the puttukudam.
- Cook the Puttu for about 10-12 minutes. Within 3-4 minutes, the steam starts escaping from the three holes on top of the puttu-kutti,this is the only way to make sure that the puttu is cooking and we have done the mix with water well to convert it into perfectly-cooked end product.
- Chemba Puttu is ready to be served with Kadala curry or Egg Roast or Payar and pappadam or even with ripe-sweet banana,cardomom and sugar.
- If you want to see green gram curry for puttu go through http://ourharsha.blogspot.com/2011/06/puttu-cherupayar-and-pappadam.html
