1. Raw rice or chemba rice - 2 cups
2. Coconut - 1 cup
3. Salt - to taste
Preparation:
- puttu Soak the rice for 2 to 3 hours then wash twice or thrice and strain it. Now spread the rice in a dry cloth and allow them to dry.
- Then grind the dried raw rice or chemba rice to a fine powder in a mixer grinder.
- Now mix salt and water little by little to the rice flour and mix well.
- Carefully mix the water because it should be in a powdered form wet enough for steaming.
- Now add handful of grated coconut in the puttu maker then the rice flour till half.
- Then add another handful coconut. Do like this till you reach the top of the puttu maker.
- Now close the lid and steam for 5 mins.