India

Puttu

Name: Puttu
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 250 g Coarse rice flour; 100 g Grated coconut; as needed Water; 1 pinch Salt; as desired Kadala curry (side); optional Ripe banana

Steamed rice-coconut cylinder from Kerala

Puttu is a steamed breakfast dish from Kerala, cooked from rice flour layered with grated coconut in a tube.

The fluffy white cylinder is classically eaten with kadala curry of black chickpeas or ripe banana.

Servings3

Time30 min

LevelMedium

Ingredients

Coarse rice flour250 g
Grated coconut100 g
Wateras needed
Salt1 pinch
Kadala curry (side)as desired
Ripe bananaoptional

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Moisten the rice flour with salt and a little water until crumbly.
Layer it alternately with coconut in the puttu tube.
Steam over bubbling water.
Carefully push the cylinder out.
Serve with kadala curry or banana.

Make it original

Coarse rice flour for puttu is in the Asia Boutique.

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