How To Make Kerala Puttu Using Bamboo Puttu Maker Traditionally – NatureLoC Recipes
Bamboo Puttu Maker
Hello all, My name is Manu, and I’m settled in California. My hometown is in Wayanad. I usually travel there once in 4 years. The last time I travelled there, a month ago, I tried puttu (Breakfast dish from Kerala, India). Now all of you may wonder, myself born in South India, is talking about a South Indian Dish. Usually puttu is steamed in aluminum cylinders, but here it was done in a peculiar way. Chandran chettan (chettan means brother in malayalam), was preparaing it in bamboo cylinders.
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I tasted bamboo puttu for the first time, and it was heavenly and the tempting aroma was still on my mind, even after reaching home in California. I could still feel its taste on the tip of my tongue. As I completed my breakfast in the lush, forested region of Wayanad, I enquired about where I could get this bamboo puttu maker.
I’m a chip designer working for Nvidia Corporation in California. My wife had passed away in an accident 2 years back. And since then my parents live with me here.
On a sunday afternoon, I and my mum started preparaing bamboo puttu. We added the puttu flour into the bamboo cylinders. After eagerly waiting for 10 mins, I experienced the same heavenly tempting aroma that of Chandran chettan’s shop. We then removed the bamboo cylinder and then using a wooden stick, removed the steamed puttu by gently sliding it out. I completed the hot puttu along with my parents, as I washed down the remaining puttu particles from my hand.
It was 1 am, as I finish my blog here. It was nearly an hour, since I started writing, as I forgot about everything else. I forgot about the depression crawling under my heart, because I was myself enjoying describing my activites preparing the bamboo puttu. And these are the peaceful moments, when you are totally gone into yourself, forgetting everything else.
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Given below is the recipe of bamboo puttu:
Ingredients – Bamboo Puttu Maker
- 1 cup rice flour
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/3 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
- 2-3 cups water for steaming
Preparation – Bamboo Puttu Maker
Puttu Flour Mixture
- Take 1 cup rice flour in a bowl and add 1/3 tsp salt to it.
- Sprinkle 1/3 cup of water all over it. Accordingly add water depending upon the quality of the rice flour. Mix it well.
- Make small lumps with it, break those small lumps using your palm. Now pour 2 cups of water in the puttu vessel/pressure cooker.
- Keep it on the stove and let it get heated.
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Steaming Puttu
- Place the circular disk in the bamboo cylindrical vessel. Then add 2-3 tbsp of grated coconut and spread evenly.
- Add the puttu flour filing it half of the cylindrical vessel. And the finally cover it with 2-3 tbsp of grated coconut and cover with the top lid.
- Place the bamboo cylindrical vessel on the top of the base vessel in which the water must have come to a boil.
- Steam puttu on medium flame, till you see steam releasing from the top vents of the bamboo cylindrical vessel. Then switch off the flame.
- Remove the bamboo cylindrical part from the bottom vessel and allow the puttu inside to cool for 2-3 mins.
- Using the wooden stick, remove the steamed puttu by gently sliding it out.
- Serve it hot with kadala curry, veg stew or potato stew.
