Ingredients
Black Channa : 1 cup
Grated coconut: 3 tablespoon
Red chilli: 2 to 3
Salt: to taste
Asafoetida: a generous pinch
Curry leaves : a sprig
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Urad dhal: 1 tsp
Oil: 2 tsp
Chopped cilantro: 1 tablespoon
Procedure:
Step 1:
Wash and soak the dhal overnight
Step2:
Pressure cook the dhal with just enough water for 10 minutes
Step3:
In a wide pan heat 2 tsp of oil
Step4:
Add mustard seeds.Once it starts spluttering add urad dal, red chillies, curry leaves and grated coconut.
Fry for 1 or 2 minutes
Step5:
Drain the water from the cooked channa dhal and add it. Add salt and mix well
Step6:
Garnish with chopped cilantro
This puttu is prepared for all kinds of functions related with ladies and is more inevitable during Navarathri.It is usually made on Fridays during Navarathri.
Traditionally this puttu is made by washing the raw rice, drying it and then grinding in machine.
I prepared this using store bought rice flour and came out pretty well
Ingredients
Rice flour : 1 cup
Jaggery : 3/4 cup (Add 1 cup if you want it sweeter)
Grated coconut: 1/4 cup
Cardomom: 2
Cashew: 1 tablespoon
Ghee : 2 tablespoon
Salt: a pinch
Turmeric powder: a pinch
Procedure:
Step1:
Dry roast the rice flour in medium flame until a nice aroma comes out.
The flour should be of kolamaavu consistency.(i.e if you draw a kolam, it should come out easily)
Step2:
Boil. 1/2 cup of water with a pinch of turmeric and salt and allow it cool
Step3:
When the water is lukewarm sprinkle this water on the rice flour and mix well.
The consistency to check here is, if you make them as balls, you should be able to do it.If you leave, it should crumble down.Approximately i used 1/4 cup of water for 1 cup of rice flour
Step4:
Steam cook this flour for 5-7 minutes in idli plate. (If you dont have idli plate, tie the flour in a cloth and cook in a steamer)
Step5:
After it cools down, break the lumps with your hands.You can use a sieve as well.
Step6:
Add 1/4 of water to 1 cup of jaggery and boil it. If there are impurities filter it and then boil again
Step7:
Boil the jaggery syrup until it reaches the following consistency
If you drop some syrup in water, you should be able to make some balls out of it
Step8:
Switch off the stove and add grated coconut and cardomom to the jaggery syrup.Add this to the rice flour little by little by constantly stirring
Step9:
You may need to use your hands here. Avoid formation of lumps and mix well until it reaches puttu consistency
Step10:
Fry some cashews in 2 tsp of ghee and add this to the puttu and mix well
Hi Friends,
I am very glad to announce the first event in my blog. As there are festivals round the corner this month and being my first event I thought of making it sweet but a healthy one.
I am guest hosting Vardhini's - Dish It Out event with Wheat and Jaggery/Brown Sugar/Cane sugar/Granulated sugar for October 2011.You can use whole wheat/cracked wheat/wheat flour
Friends, please send in your yummy dishes for this event with this combo.
Here are some basic rules
1. Make a dish using the ingredients mentioned (Wheat & Jaggery/Brown Sugar/Cane Sugar). Ingredients not on the list can also be used, but we should be able to taste the mentioned ingredients.
2. Only vegetarian entries. Eggs are allowed in baking.
3. Use of logo is appreciated as it helps spread the word.
4. Link to both Vardhini's Dish it Out announcement and this announcement is mandatory.
5. Archived entries are accepted as long as updated with these hyperlinks as above.
6. Non bloggers may also send in their entries.
You may tag all your delicious recipes and mail me :nalakr@gmail.com
Send in your entries by 31-Oct-2011
Thanks to Vardhini for giving me this opportunity
