KUZHA PUTTU

Preparation Method :

• Soak the raw rice for around 2 hours. Dry it on a paper or cloth.
• Then grind in a mixie. sieve it.
• Mix 1 teaspoon salt and enough warm water and mix with hands to a coarsely form. (Should not add more water).
• Boil 2 cups of water inside the bottom of puttu maker.
• Fill the Puttu tube with rice powder, grated coconut and sugar one by one.
• (The order should be the rice first, and then grated coconut and finally sugar.)
• Keep the puttu tube inside the puttu pot and close it with its lid.
• Let it boil for 7 minutes.
• When you find the steam comes out of the lid, wait for 2 minutes.
• Take out the puttu tube and keep it in the slanting position.
• Open the lid and push the boiled puttu with a long rolled stick.
• Now the puttu is ready.
• Before making the puttu second time, pour a little water into the puttu tube and drop the water out.
• Again do the same method to make puttu with the remaining puttu powder.
• Instead of sugar you can use scraped palm jaggery(Karupatti).