Ingredients:
- 1 & ½ cup Nellon chemba Puttu Podi
- 1 tbsp cup water
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup coconut
Instructions:
Take a wide bowl to add 1 & ½ cups of Nellon Puttu Powder. Add ½ salt to taste and mix it well. Take 1 cup water Sprinkle water, and crumble the flour. Add water in batches and mix well with your fingertips.
Flour needs to hold shape when pressed between the fist and needs to break on further pressing. Make a moist flour with a crumbly texture. Rest the flour for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, boil water in a steamer or if you are using Puttu kudam, add water till the line inside. place the perforated disc inside the cylindrical vessel. now add ¼ cup of freshly grated coconut and then Followed by 2 times ¼ + ¼ cup of puttu flour.
Again add a layer with ¼ cup of coconut, ¼ +1/4 cup of puttu flour on top add ¼ cup of coconut, and level it up using a spoon. Gently press it.
Close the puttu Kudam(cylindrical tube) and steam for 8 to 10 minutes or till the steam escapes from the top holes. Once steamed switch off the stove.
Carefully open the lid and push the whole plate forward using a wooden stick or any ladles from the back. remove the whole plate and serve hot puttu.
