Bread Puttu / Steam Cakes With Bread Crumbs

This is one of the easiest of breakfast recipes. You can cook this in few minutes. A tasty dish which can take with sugar , curries or boiled banana.If you have leftover bread in your fridge use it to make this delicious breakfast. Children can take this as a tiffin too. It will not turn hard later like the usual rice powder puttu.I used 4 or 5 bread slices to make these 3 pieces of puttu.

How to prepare bread puttu
Bread
water
salt (if the bread is unsalted)
coconut grated



Slice the sides of bread. Sprinkle very little water on bread pieces and crumble them which actually look like puttu podi.(you can use mixer grinder to make bread crumbs.Then sprinkle water over it).Mix with hands. Then put two handful into the puttu kutti then coconut grated on top. Repeat this until you make three pieces of puttu. Steam them on the puttu kudam / vessel. Take out just like we do for making puttu.
Use very little water to sprinkle over or you can make without sprinkling water too.

For making puttu / steam cakes follow the puttu recipe here.

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Erachi / Meat Puttu

Erachi puttu / Steamed Rice flour Cakes with meat mixture.

Ingredients and Method
Minced meat 2 cups
onion 2
ginger garlic paste 2 teaspoons
green chillies 4
coriander leaves chopped 1/2 cup
pepper powder 1 teaspoon
turmeric powder 1 teaspoon
coriander powder 2 teaspoons
garam masala 1 teaspoon
salt
oil



For making the mixture,
chop onion, green chillies and coriander leaves finely. Heat oil, saute onion. When it is transparent, add garlic and ginger paste as usual. Stir for few seconds until the raw smell goes. Then saute green chillies, add meat, all the powders and salt into this. Add little water to cook. Once it is cooked, reduce water and make it a dry curry. Add coriander leaves and mix well.

For making puttu, first place little of this mixture in puttu kutti.Then put two handful of rice flour prepared. Then meat mixture. Repeat this to get three pieces of puttu. Cook this on the puttu vessel till the steam comes out. Let it cook for few more minutes after the first steam comes out.

You can follow the instructions for making puttu here.

If you love to have puttu with some curries, the Vegetable stew or Kuruma is best to take with this. Making the meat mixture very thick like curries adding tomatoes will prevent the steam to come out.

See Mishmash's Erachi puttu recipe here! If anyone of you have an Erachi puttu recipe, pls let me know.
Again an entry for RCI Kerala hosted by Currybazar.

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Puttu and Kadala

Kadala Curry


Ingredients to make Kadala curry
Black chana / karuppu kadala – one cup
Onion one
Tomato one small
Green chilly one or two
Turmeric powder half teaspoon
Chilly powder half tea spoon
Coriander powder two teaspoons
Ginger half inch piece
Curry leaves few
Mustard seeds one tea spoon
Coconut oil one table spoon
salt
Dry red chilly one

How to prepare
Soak black chana in water for one whole night.
Wash.
Mix with turmeric, red chily powder and salt.
Cook in enough water till soft.
Take one table spoon chana from this and grind to a paste or mash it.
Mix this in the above cooked kadala.

Again, heat coconut oil, splutter mustard seeds, add red chilly pieces, chopped onion.saute onion till transparent.
Add green chilly, curry leaves and ginger chopped or crushed.
Sauté.
Add tomatoes and coriander powder.
Stir well.
When tomatoes are done, mix with the above kadala solution.check salt.
Boil.
Remove from fire.

You can make this by adding fried coconut instead of mashing chana. Fry half cup coconut with two small onions chopped and few curry leaves. When it turns brown, add coriander powder of the above quantity. Stir for few seconds. Blend this with enough water. Mix this solution with kadala and the above sautéed ingredients. Then just boil this.



Rice puttu with Kadala curry

Rice puttu

Rice puttu/steam cake

Ingredients and method of preparation
For rice powder
Wash and soak raw rice/ pachari or boiled rice / puzhungallari in water for six or more hours. Drain , and dry grind this to make powder. Fry this in a pan for few minutes.

Or take rice powder one cup. Add enough salt. Pour ¼ cup water over this. Mix well with hands till it crumbles. Sprinkle more water if needed to make it wet. This looks like bread crumbs. Don’t add too much water. If you find it sticky add more powder and mix again.

Boil water in puttu kudam / puttu vessel.
Take puttu kutti/ cylindrical mould; level two table spoons of grated coconut. Then add two handful of above mentioned rice powder. Then level little grated coconut above this to cover the rice powder. Again put two hands full of rice powder above this. Do this till the mould is full. Keep the last layer for coconut. Place the kutti/mould on the puttu vessel. Let the steam come through the kutti/mould. Keep for few minutes till the puttu cooked well. Remove the kutti/mould from the vessel and replace the contents into a casserole with the help of a chapathi roller.

Rava/Rawa Puttu
For making rawa puttu
Take one cup rawa. Dry roast it for few minutes. Let it cool. Add little salt and sprinkle water over this. Mix well with hands till it crumbles. Don’t add too much water. Rawa doesn’t need the amount of water used for rice powder. Some times I add about one or two table spoons of rice flour in rawa to avoid too much of wetness. Just steam this in puttu kutti/mould without adding coconut.
Let it cook for few minutes after steam come out. Take the puttu out and break it. Sprinkle little water and mix again. Then follow the method used to make rice puttu with coconut. This rawa puttu is very soft and we don’t need any curry with this. That much soft and tasty!


Rava puttu first stage

We can make different kinds of puttu by this method. Wheat/ Godhambu, Badam/ Almond, Ragi/ Panjappullu, Kappa/Tapioca etc are among them.

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