Sweet Puttu

As two of my sis are after puttu making, posting the recipe here. Last time when I went to india I had learnt from Mom. She makes awesome puttu...No one to beat her...Nice golden colour puttu..a feast to eyes and cant stop eating once you have a spoon of it....During Dasara week on Friday she makes puttu for the Goddesses(Lakshmi,Saraswathi and Durga). The smell of ghee,jaggery cardamom in the air pulls you into the kitchen. These get distributed to all who comes to visit kolu/Dolls and haldi kumkum  at home during dasara. These snaps taken while mom making the same.


Lets see how to make it.

Boiled Rice:- 2cups
Jaggery :- 2 Cups
Cashews- 8 pieces
Ghee - 5 tsp
Cardamom - 2(powdered)
Salt- To taste
Turmeric- 1/3 tsp
Coconut -1 cup(scraped)

Method:-
1. Fry the boiled rice in a dry pan, so that it changes colour. Don't burn it.
2.Let it cool and make it into nice powder in a mixie.
3. Add Salt and a pinch of turmeric to the powdered rice flour.(Thin rava consistency)
4. Sprinkle warm water to it and if you try to hold it in hand it should not crumble.

5. put the above mixture in a cloth and steam it in cooker for 15 min.
6. cool it and remove all the lumps.

7. Keep a pan on the stove add jaggery and little water so that the jaggery melts.
8. Strain it in strainer to remove impurities.
9. Keep the jaggery mixture on stove add cardamom powder, keep stirring until it thickens.

10. Take water in a small cup and drop a little jaggery in it. you will be able to make a ball of it.

11. That is the correct consistency (gatti paghu).Add the steamed rice flour to it, and scraped coconut. mix well.
12. Heat Ghee in a pan add cashews fry till golden brown.

13. Add it to the above(puttu mixture).
14. Yummy puttu ready to eat.