Chemba Puttu – Brown Rice cake
Puttu is a famous dish in Kerala and Tamilnadu. It is so simple to make and delicious too. I love to eat puttu with sugar and coconut with some cardamom and ghee sprinkled in it. If you don’t like it sweet, you can eat it with ‘kadala curry’ which I will post later. I bought the main ingredient, Chemba Puttu Podi or Brown Rice Puttu Podi, from an Indian Grocery store. I bought the Puttu maker called ‘Puttu kutti’ from India. It has a lower bulkier portion, just like a pot, to contain water and an upper detachable portion where we stuff the puttu flour. If you don’t have one, you can also make puttu in the Idly plates. Here you go…
Preparation time: 30 minutes
No. of servings: 2 to 3
Ingredients:
- Chemba puttu podi or Brown rice puttu flour – 2 cups
- Shredded coconut – 1/2 cup
- Sugar – 4 tbsp
- Cardamom – 3 nos.
- Ghee or Clarified butter – 1 tsp
- Hot water – 1 cup
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
Method of Preparation:
- Boil a cup of water and add a quarter teaspoon of salt.
- Take 2 cups of puttu podi in a bowl and sprinkle some salted hot water and mix well.
- Keep sprinkling water and mix until you are able to hold the flour and it hold its shape when you open your palm.
- If there is not enough water, the puttu won’t be cooked.
- The flour needs to be free flowing as well as wet.
- If you have ‘puttu kutti’, the utensil to make puttu, fill the bottom portion that is the pot with water till 3/4th of it.
- Fill the top portion with two handful of the wet powder and 2 tbsp of shredded coconut and again with two handful of powder and repeat it till it is full.
- Cover it with the lid and place it on top of the pot and turn on the stove at medium heat.
- Leave it till the steam comes out of the holes in the lid, approximately 15 minutes.
- If you don’t have a puttu kutti, you can use your idly plates and make the puttu just as shown in our other recipe, White Rice Flour Cake.
Enjoy your puttu.
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one of our favorite BF .best combo with kadala curry .
Wow! This is lovely! I’m gonna gobble the rice puttu! It’s healthy too!
Nithu, shall I drop in for a breakfast
. They look awesome and my favourite.
Hi Nithu
What a dish! What clicks!! I can almost grab them out of the monitor. I have followed many blogs, but your preparation stand amongst top of the tops. Rice cakes are awesome.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Yummy n healthy puttu…beauuuuuuuutiful click…
new for me.. good that i can use idli maker for this.. i guess this needs practice.. Thanks for sharing!
Nithu,
Puttu is my favorite too. I like it.
nice recipe…healthy too
Those two towers are perfect for my breakfast…Nice Pictures…
Puttu is one of my fav too but its been long since i had this….it looks very tempting and delicious …
Woww my fav..makes me nostalgic:)..
Looks mothewatering..i liked that sugar coating
This is new to me..looks so delicious & healthy Shriya.
This looks lovely! I always wanted to make this and here I bookmarked this recipe.