Sweet puttu is usually done on Navratri Friday. It is yum and soft.
Ingredients
Raw rice flour - 1cup
Jaggery - 1 or 3/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Grated coconut - 2tbs
Ghee - 1tbsp
Cashew - 8 (broken)
Method:
Making rice flour:
Soak 1cup of raw rice for 20min and dry it under the fan for half an hour. It should come in hand to hold and should fall when left. You can grind it to powder in the mixe. It is better to grind slightly coarse. It should not be too coarse or fine powder.
You can buy puttu mavu from the store.
1. Dry roast the rice flour till it turns brown. Sprinkle warm water with a pinch of turmeric powder and need well keep doing till you get a dough which you can make a first of dough and can spread when left.
2. Soak jaggery in 1/4 cup of water and filter the dirt or sand particles.
3. You can keep the rice flour in a muslin cloth and tie it tightly and steam cook for 20mins. Or you can grease the idly plates with coconut oil and steam cook. Leave the bottom plate empty. Fill the other plates with rice flour to avoid water entering the rice flour.
3. Heat the jaggery syrup add cardamom powder, grated coconut and make the pagu. It should come in hand to roll like a ball .
4. Keep the steamed rice flower in a bowl and add the pagu(jaggery syrup) . Mix thoroughly.
5. Put this mixer in the mixe jar and whip for 2or 3 times. It will become so soft.
6. Heat the ghee and roast the cashews and add.
Mix well. Puttu is ready.
Note: you can add soaked toor dal after steam cooking along with the rice flour.
