Kerala Breakfast – Pazham Puttu

Ingredients

• Banana – 2 nos
• Rice flour – 2 cups
• Grated coconut – 1 cup
• Sugar – 2 or 3 tbsp
• Salt – 1 or 2 tsp

Method

• Take a pan add grated coconut ,chopped banana and sugar ,combine and set aside.
• Take a pan add rice flour and salt.
• Now we sprinkle little by little amount of water .
• Mix the rice flour with your finger to a course mixture ,set aside.
• Heat the vessel with water and allow water to simmer.
• Take a half coconut shell and add banana coconut mix .
• Now we add rice flour mix
• Again we have to layer with grated coconut banana mix .
• Fix the filled coconut shell on the steamer opening
• Then covered with other half of the coconut shell.
• Steam passing through the lid hole, shows that the Puttu is cooked and ready.
• Then we detach the mould from the boiled water bath.
• Invert the shell on a plate.
• Serve and enjoy the pazham Puttu with coffee.