Rice puttu

Ingredients

1. Rice                            1 cup
2. Jaggery                       1 cup
3. Coconut                      1/2 cup
4. Salt                             1/4 tsp

Method

• Wash rice and soak 2 hours.
• Drain water completely and spread on a towel for an hour.
• Powder the rice as rawa.
• Make jaggery syrup by adding 1/2 cup of water.
• Stir until the jaggery dissolves.
• Put powdered rice and sprinkle jaggery water and mix it with a spoon or hand.
• Sprinkle water until it absorbs.
• Soak for 1 hour.
• In a cooker add water and boil close the lid don't put the weight.
• In Puttu mold add little coconut then the Puttu flour.
• Add coconut and rice layer by layer on the top add more coconut.
• And steam for 20 minutes.

Steaming without puttu mold

• Mix the Puttu ingredients in a bowl.
• Add coconut and steam in an idli cooker or steamer for 20 minutes.
• Grease plate put the jaggery mixed flour.
• Sprinkle coconut on top and steam.