Sweet Puttu (steamed rice cake from Kerala) with coconut

Name: Sweet Puttu (steamed rice cake from Kerala) with coconut
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 1 cup Grated coconut; 1 tablespoon Sugar; Pinch Salt; 2 Large bananas

Lakshmi Sridharan Ph D @cook_19872338

USA

Coconut Puttu is a popular breakfast food in Kerala. Keralites add coconut abundantly in all their dishes. Coconut is a good ingredient with good fat. Aroma, flavor anf sweet taste. It is a healthy breakfast. Keralites make them in a special puttu kuzhai (tube like)mounted on a vessel. Vessel contains water for generating steam. Steam cooks the puttu ingredients in the tube. I lost minedelicious pudding-- I made it without a” puttu kuzhai”, 10 years ago my sis in law bought me a puttu kuzhai tube. I searched, but couldn't find it, I am good at improvising #Breakfast from Kerala #GA2025

Lakshmi Sridharan Ph D @cook_19872338

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Ingredients

30 mins

4 servings

1 cuprice
1 cupGrated coconut
1 tablespoonSugar
PinchSalt
2Large bananas
breakfast, Coconut Puttu

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Steps

30 mins

1

Make the checklist Collect the ingredients needed. Place it near the cooking area.
2

Soak the rice in 4 cups of water in a bowl for 2 hours. Drain and spread the rice on a clean cloth to dry for 30 minutes. There should be a little moisture. Then grind it in a mixer. Grind it like rava. Use the flour that falls down for dosa. Make the puttu from what remains on the sieve
3

Take 1 cup of this rice rava.. Add it to a bowl and mix it with the same amount of freshly grated coconut, 1 tablespoon of sugar, salt. Add ¾ cup of water and mix it by hand. Cover and let it rest for 15 minutes. You should be able to hold with a closed fist
4

Steam the puttu mix like idli. You can steam it in an idli pot or in a cooker. Put a cloth in the idli cavity, fill a small cup with puttu mix to make it like cake and turn it over on the cloth, place the idli stand in the cooker and cover (without pressure) to steam. The cooked aroma will come in 10 minutes. Turn off the stove. Take out the stand, let cool the puttu cakes
5

Transfer the puttu cake to a serving plate. Serve with banana slices. In Kerala the most popular banana is Nenthirankaai/pazham
You can break the cake with your fingers and eat with the banana slices.

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Lakshmi Sridharan Ph D @cook_19872338

on June 10, 2025 21:34

USA

I am a scientist with a Ph.D from University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. I also have a M. SC from University of Madras. Enjoy sharing my knowledge in science and my experience in gardening and cooking with others. I am a free lance writer, published several articles on Indian culture, traditions, Indian cuisine, science of gardening and etc in National and Inernational magazines. I am a health food nut. I am passionate about photography