Name: Mango Puttu
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: ½ cup Rice flour; ½ teaspoon Salt (or as per taste); 1 Ripe Mango (chopped); ½ cup Coconut (grated ); ¼ cup Water

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Puttu is very famous and traditional healthy breakfast dish of Kerala, made from rice flour and grated coconut. It is served with spicy chickpea curry or sugar and bananas.

As the summer is going on these days, I have tried to make puttu with delicious Mangoes and Coconut scrapings in a coconut shell. Traditionally, Puttu was steamed in coconut shells but now stainless steel puttu steamers are readily available in the shops.

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Served AsBreakfast, Snacks

CuisineSouth Indian

Recipe Taste Salty, Sweet

Servings

Ingredients

Instructions

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Take Rice flour in a plate, add salt and slowly add water little by little over the rice flour; mix well.
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The flour should become wet and smooth like sand. When you roll the mixture into a ball, it should be able to hold shape and crumble easily when you crush it. Keep this aside for 5 minutes.
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Take an empty coconut shell, the part with three eyes. Break one of the eyes with a back of a spoon to create a big hole and keep aside.
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Heat the pressure cooker with enough water and close the lid without putting on the whistle and boil till the steam comes out from the top.
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Meanwhile, grease the coconut shell with ghee or coconut oil, and add a tablespoon of freshly grated coconut scrapings.
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Then add a layer of chopped mangoes and a layer of rice flour, repeat the process and top it with grated coconut scrapings. (Fill all the layers loosely)
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Now put the coconut shell over the cookerâ€™s whistle, by inserting it through the hole, cover it with a lid or damp cloth and allow it to cook on a medium flame for 10 minutes, till you can see the steam coming out of the Puttu.
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When cooked, carefully remove the coconut shell from the whistle and invert it on a plate and serve it immediately. (If the Puttu is fully cooked it will come out easily)