WHEAT PUTTU

WHEAT PUTTU

How many of you like upma? I bet there will be very few takers and it will be even less if it’s going to be wheat upma. So what else can we do with wheat flour other than making chapathi’s to make it a part of a regular breakfast. Here is a suggestion “wheat puttu” sweet or spicy…

INGREDIENTS :

Wheat flour	1 cup
Salt	To taste
Lukewarm water	As required
Grated coconut (fresh)                                                        ½ cup

FOR SWEET :

Cooked puttu	One half
Sugar	2 – 3 tbsp
Cardamom powder	½ tsp
Ghee	1 tbsp

FOR SPICY :

Cooked puttu	Second half
Oil	1 tsp
Mustard seeds	½  tsp
Bengal gram	1 tsp
Urud dal	1 tsp
Curry leaf	Few
Green chili	4 – 5
Red chili	2
Onion (medium, chopped)                                                 1

METHOD :

·         Dry roast the wheat flour until the raw smell subsides. Do it in medium flame and stir fry continuously. It will take around 5 minutes. Keep aside and let it cool.

·         To it add little salt (do not add more as we are going to prepare sweet and spicy puttu with the same flour).

·         Sprinkle lukewarm water in regular intervals and mix with a karandi. It should be grainy like sands. You will get some lumps. The trick here is to whip it in mixi once or twice to get the perfectly without sticky with one another.

·         Add grated coconut to this and mix with karandi. If you do it in hand it might form lumps.

·         Steam cook in idly pan for 10 minutes.

·         Divide the puttu mix in to two halves and keep aside.

FOR SWEET :

·         To one half of the puttu, add sugar, cardamom powder and ghee. Mix well.

FOR SPICY :

·         Heat oil in a kadai and temper with mustard seeds, bengal gram, urad dal, curry leaf and green chilies.

·         Add onions and saute until translucent.

·         Add enough salt and stir fry for a minute (Remember I have already added little salt while steam cooking the puttu).

·         Switch off the gas. Add the other half of puttu and mix well.

NOTE :

·         Adding coconut while steam cooking will make the puttu soft.

·         Mixing spicy puttu with the tempered ingredients on flame will make it dry.