Rava Puttu | Semolina Puttu | Sooji Puttu

Rava Puttu, a delicious breakfast or evening snack made with semolina and grated coconut.I never heard about this puttu until i had it in my friend's home.

Two years back, I wasn't able to attend my close friend's marriage, so later we planned to visit her in her MIL's place at a village nearby Mayiladuthurai. Her MIL prepared a delicious and wide spread of food for our dinner. In that menu, this rava puttu was also included.

My friend knew that I like puttu a lot and I might casually mention it  to her during our hostel stay. So she insisted her MIL to prepare some puttu along with the menu.

Her MIL was so sweet & kind enough to prepare this puttu for my sake.The puttu was so soft and she served it with some ghee and sugar. It was so flavorful and delicious in each mouthful.

Later when we were talking over the phone, I got the recipe from my friend and prepared it very often with  various combinations like with kadala curry, appalam & banana.

Though it tastes good with other combinations, my all time favorite is with simple ghee & sugar. If you have tried this recipe before, do give it a try! 

Rava/Sooji Puttu

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
rava puttu,semolina puttu,sooji puttu,puttu recipe,steamed cake,steamed semolina cake,rava coconut puttu Rava Puttu, a delicious breakfast/ evening time snack made with semolina and grated coconut.

Sandhiya https://www.facebook.com/SandhiyasCookbook https://www.instagram.com/sandhiyascookbook/

Ingredients
Semolina/Sooji/Rava - 1 cup
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Water - as need
Grated Coconut - 1/3 cup

Procedure

Heat a pan, add rava and dry roast it till the nice aroma comes from it , by the time it slightly changes its color too. Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely.

Add salt into the rava & mix it well. Then add little by little water into rava and mix it with your hands until the rava is moist well.

Take a handful of rava and press it with your fist, it should hold the shape,then press it with your thumb,it should crumble, that's the correct stage of rava.

Take the puttu maker and add the grated coconut and then add rava, repeat the same and finish off with coconut.

Steam it in the pressure cooker or puttu steamer for 12-15 mins.

That's it, Yummy Rava Puttu is ready.

Related: How to make Ragi Puttu 

Related: More Puttu and idiyappam varieties 

Notes:

• For me, it takes around 8 mins to dry roast the rava in medium flame.
• The flavor of the puttu comes from the dry roasting of rava,so roast till the nice aroma comes from it.
• This puttu takes little longer time to cook than the rice flour puttu.
• If you don't have puttu maker, you can use any steamer pot also.

Sprinkle some ghee & sugar,it's time to dig in

Continue Reading »

Samba Rice Puttu | Samba Arisi Puttu | Puttu recipe

Samba Arisi Puttu is a delicious steamed cake from the samba rice flour and coconut. Samba rice is a variety of rice grown mainly in south India, it has reddish color and distinct taste & aroma compared to regular white rice and also it's believed to be more healthier than the normal rice.

This samba rice puttu is my personal favorite puttu among all the puttu(rice puttu, rava puttu, ragi puttu) we make at home. Samba rice has that unique color and flavor, that makes the puttu more delicious and flavorful.So if you haven't tried this puttu before, do give it a try, i'm sure that you would love this unique taste and aroma.

Still we're in the process of transition into new place, so for the past few months, we have been traveling continuously and i hardly find time to cook anything. Mostly we're having the food prepared by family members and i'm quite enjoying this no cooking & cleaning time. 

Even if i cook at my mil's or mom's place, it's difficult to shoot food photos since usually i take lot of time to shoot the final phots and that's not possible when every one waits for me to have food. But today morning, somehow i had prepared everything earlier for this puttu and took the photos as quick as possible since it's been really long time since i have posted a recipe here and now tada, here i'm with the post.

Samba Rice Puttu

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 7 mins | Serves : 1 
Recipe Category: Breakfast/Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Samba Rice flour - 1/2 cup
Grated Coconut - 1/4 to 1/3 cup
Coconut Water/Water - as needed
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar,ghee & banana - as needed for serving.

Procedure

Take the samba rice flour, measure and put it in a bowl, add the salt.

Mix it all well together, then add coconut water little by little and mix it well with the flour.

The flour should be hold the shape when you press it with your fist  and again it should be crumble when you crumble it with your fingers . That's the right way to check the consistency of the flour. And also make sure that there is no lump in the flour.

Now take the Puttu Kuzhal(Puttu maker). Add the small plate with hole(it comes with puttu maker itself) in to it. First start off with the 1 or 2 tbsp of grated coconut.

Next add the flour for about 1&1/2 inch thickness.Repeat the process and finish off with grated coconut on the top. Cover the puttu maker with the lid.

Place the puttu maker in the cooker instead of weight and steam it for 5- 7 mins. Tasty Samba Rice Puttu is ready.

Drizzle some ghee on top and serve it with sugar and banana.

Related: How to make Ragi Idiyappam 

Notes:

• I have used coconut water from one coconut and for the remaining i have used regular water.
• Depends on your preference, you can more or less of grated coconut.
• To get the perfectly shaped puttu, the amount of water used is very important. For me it takes around 1/4 cup of 1/2 cup of flour.
• If the amount of water is less, then the puttu will not hold the shape and also it's very dry.
• Remove the lumps , while mixing the flour.
• Once you washed the puttu maker, wipe the inside of the puttu maker with tissue paper/kitchen towel, before adding flour. It helps to avoid the flour sticks to the maker, so that you will get perfectly shaped puttu.
• Once you mix the flour with water, immediately steam it, if you make large quantity, do it in batch. It will avoid the flour to become dry.
• If you dont have puttu maker, steam it in idly pot.
• I used store bought flour, if you are using fresh home made flour,it doesn't require this much water.
  

Continue Reading »

Kuzha Puttu | Kerala Puttu

Kuzha puttu,one of my favorite since childhood.As our native is "Tirunelveli",our cooking have lot of kerala cuisine influence. We use lot of coconuts and also puttu,appam,idiyappam are our regular breakfast menu atleast twice in a week .We usually used to have puttu with sugar & ghee/banana . But after tasting it from few kerala restaurant, i used to like the puttu & kadala curry combination now ,but nothing beats sugar & ghee combo.

In my earlier days of primary schooling, we stayed in Villupuram, so on summer holidays, we went  to Tirunelveli. In those days, lot of islamic ladies in the street next to our grandma house made appam , puttu & idiyappam in their house and sold it.

My grandma used to take us(me,my brother & cousins) to their house at early morning itself. We used to  carry vessels for puttu & appam and tumbler for coconut milk. Lot of people were waiting before us, so we had to wait for our turn to get it and once reached home, we all had it together and it was delicious. I miss those days, it makes me nostalgic. Ok.Enough with my "blah blah", will check recipe now.

Kuzha Puttu

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 1 or 2 
Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients 
Rice flour - 1 cup.

Water - 1/2 cup (approx)

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Coconut - 1/2 cup

Procedure

Take the rice flour in the bowl , add salt and mix it well, Then sprinkle water and mix it, it looks like crumbled bread.

The flour should be hold the shape when you press it with your fist  and again it should be crumble when you crumble it with your fingers . That's the right way to check the consistency of the flour.Now take the Puttu Kuzhal(Puttu maker). Add the small plate with hole(it comes with puttu maker itself) in to it. Now add the flour into the maker and then coconut . Usually i add about 2 fistful of flour and 2 tbsp of coconut in between.Repeat this, until it reaches the top, close with the lid.Now heat the water in the pressure pan with lid , and place this puttu maker instead of weight. Steam it for 5 mins in medium flame. Once cooked, you can see the steam coming out of the holes in the top of the puttu maker.

Switch off the flame. Now using the stick that comes from puttu maker to  press the puttu slowly. It will come out cleanly.
Tasty Kuzha puttu is ready. Serve with with Kadala curry or sugar with drizzle of ghee(My favorite) or sugar with banana whichever way you like.

Notes:

• To get the perfectly shaped puttu, the amount of water , we used is very important. For me it takes around 1/2 cup of 1 cup of flour.
• If the amount of water is less, then the puttu will not hold the shape and also it's very dry.
• Remove the lumps , while mixing the flour.
• You can increase/decrease the amount of coconut according to your preference.
• Once you washed the puttu maker, remove the water inside the puttu maker with tissue paper, before adding flour. It helps to avoid the flour sticks to the maker, so that you will get perfectly shaped puttu.
• Once you mix the flour with water, immediately steam it, if you make large quantity, do it in batch. It will avoid the flour to become dry.
• If you dont have puttu maker, steam it in idly pot.
• I used store bought flour, if you are using fresh home made flour,it doesnt require this much water.
  

Continue Reading »

Sweet Puttu with home made rice flour | Vella Puttu | Navarathri recipe

My long time wish to make vella puttu comes true today. Vella puttu is the tradiational prasadam to offer on Friday in Navarathi season. To make puttu from scratch is really tiresome work,but the end result is worth for all the efforts.As you have been reading my blog regularly, you might know how much i love puttu, so without any short cuts, i make this puttu in our old fashioned method.
To make the process simple, i split the work into two days, yesterday itself i made the flour, therefore it's easy to prepare puttu today. Here i split the post into two section first let's see how to make the flour for puttu, you can use the same flour for making murukku, seedai & athirasam too. Bookmark this post , it will be useful for coming Diwali too :-). As i want to make note of each details, it becomes really lengthy post, if you're going to make this puttu with store brought flour, skip the first section.

Homemade Rice flour

Preparation Time : 2 hrs | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Makes : 11/3 cup 
Recipe Category: Basic | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Raw Rice - 1 cup

Procedure

Wash the rice in running water twice and soak it for 11/2 to 2 hrs.Drain the water from rice and spread it on neat kitchen towel for 20 mins.After 20 mins, the rich should be damp, not completely  dry, at this stage, transfer the rice into mixie jar.Grind into fine powder, then transfer the rice flour into sieve  and sieve it till no flour pass through the sieve.After sieving, put the leftover rice granule into mixie jar and grind into smooth powder and add it into the already sieved flour.If you notice any large granule after the 2nd grinding, put it in sieve and sieve, but mine is smooth ,so i dont do that 2nd time.Heat the kadai in medium flame and add the sieved flour, roast in medium flame continuously for 12 -15 mins, all the moisture from the flour evaporates and the flour is like dry sand. At this stage, you can able to draw a line with the flourThat's it your home made flour is ready.

Now let's see now to make puttu.Hope you will find this useful and try this on coming friday.

Vella Puttu

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Homemade Rice flour - 1/2 cup
Powdered jaggery -1/4 cup
Cardamom - 2
Grated coconut - 1 tbsp
Ghee -1/2 tsp
Cashew (broken) - 1 tsp
Turmeric - a fat pinch
Water- 1/4 cup approx
Salt - apinch

Procedure

Measure and take the flour , add turmeric powder & salt  in the water and add it in the flour slowly and mix well.Keep on adding water and mix it. The flour should hold its shape when you press it with your fist and again it should be crumble when you crumble it with your fingers.That's the correct stage.Place the flour in steamer and steam it for 10 mins in medium flame.Once the flour is cooked, you can able to form  a thread when you take a pinch of flour in between your thumb and fore finger and roll it back & forth.Remove from steamer and allow to cool completely.Heat a kadai with jaggery and water(just enough to cover the jaggery) and allow to melt.When the jaggery syrup comes to boil, add the crushed cardamom.Once the syrup reaches soft ball consistency(pour some syrup in water,it settles at bottom and you can able to roll as ball), add the puttu.Now add the grated coconut and give a good mix. Now in a tempering pan, heat the ghee and roast the cashew till it becomes golden brown.Add the cashews into the puttu , mix well and it's ready for offering.Tasty and traditional Vella Puttu is ready.

Notes:

•  This puttu has medium sweetness.
• If you want you can extra 2 tbsp of jaggery to increase the sweetness.
• If you find more lumps in puttu , pulse it once in mixie before adding into the jaggery syrup.
• It looks sticky when it's warm. Once it's cooled ,it will be non sticky and looks like dry sand.
• I used my idli plate to steam the puttu.

Continue Reading »