Sweet Puttu

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Kg. Parboiled rice
• 400gms. Jaggery
• 1/2 sp turmeric powder
• 6 Cardomam (make powder)
• 1/4 cup coconut grated
• 2 sp cahsewnuts crushed
• 1 sp ghee
• 1 pinch salt

Method:

• Dry fry the rice till it become some what big and smells good.
• Keep aside. Bring it to room temp.
• Then make like powder by using Mixer.
• In a deep vessel put the rice flour and add turmeric powder.
• Add salt and 2 tab. sp water. Mix well. Dont pour more water.
• Just sprinkle and mix well. Try to make a ball out of it.
• If you can then break it. If you could do this, then dont add more water.
• Or otherwise just sprinkle little more water and try to do the above again.
• Now Put this in a cooker vessel and cook it like Idly (without putting the weight)
• After opening the cooker, you just check whether it cooked or not.
• Take a pinch of the cooked flour and rub it with your two fingers.
• If the flour turned like a thread then the cooking is over.
• It is ready. If you can do that , keep it again in the cooker and cook for some more time.
• Remove from the cooker and bring it to the room temp.
• Mix well with hands without any lumps.
• Fry cashew nuts in 1 sp ghee and keep aside.
• Now, in a deep pan pour 50 ml water and put crushed jaggery and when it melts filter it.
• Make syrup out of it.
• The syrup should become thick enough, so that when you add a drop of it in a vessel of water, it should solidify immediately.
• When the syrup reaches this stage remove from the stove and add the cooked flour in syrup.
• Mix well. Add cardamom powder, grated coconut and fried cashew nuts.
• The puttu is ready and it must be like dry sand after adding the jaggery.

Notes:

• We used to do this on Navarathri Friday