Rice Puttu

Description

 * Ethnicity - South Indian
 * Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner

Ingredients

 * 1/2 kg: Raw rice
 * 1/2 no: coconut, grated
 * water to sprinkle
 * salt to taste

Directions

 * 1) Soak rice in water for 4 hrs, then drain it and grind it to make fine powder.
 * 2) Heat the powder for 5 mts. While heating stir it. Keep it for cooling.
 * 3) Mix salt with water sprinkle this to the powdered rice just to make the powder wet. For making puttu special utensil is used named puttukutty or micro puttu. Put a handful of grated coconut in the puttukutty and then put rice powder till half then add another handful of grated coconut.
 * 4) This is done till the top. Close the lid steam it for 2 mts in cooker. Serve it with Potato curry or ghee.