RAGI PUTTU / RAGI STEAMED CAKE

‘Ragi’ or ‘finger millet’ or ‘panja pullu’ (in Malayalam) is a supplier of proteins and minerals for a healthy living… Varieties of food items can be made out of ragi… ‘Ragi puttu’ is a very easy and healthy breakefast item, which we can prepare at our own kitchen…. ‘Ragi steamed cake’ is a breakfast item in Kerala…

In this recipe, I used home-made ragi powder instead of which we get from shops… I fried the ragi powder, after sieving and used for the preparation of this puttu… If we prepare the ragi powder at home, that will be much greater in dishes…

Ingredients:

Ragi / Finger Millet flour ------------------------------ 1 cup

Coconut ------------------------------------------------------- ½ - 1 cup (grated)

Salt ------------------------------------------------------------- to taste

Water --------------------------------------------------------- as needed

Preparation:

1.     Take the ragi flour in a vessel and add salt and mix well with fingers

2.     Sprinkle water into the flour and mix well until it become wet enough for making puttu. Make sure that don’t pour more water at a time, because it will become dough if you do so.

3.     The wet powder may have some lumps, in order to remove the same, put the flour in a mixi and pulse it just for a second and take it back into the vessel

4.     Add 2-3 tablespoon of grated coconut into the mixture and mix well

5.     Heat the steamer with water

6.     By the time, in a puttu maker (puttu kutti), after put a small disc with holes (chillu), add 2 teaspoon grated coconut, then prepared flour till half part, then again add 2 teaspoon coconut, then prepared flour, and at the end also add 2 teaspoon coconut, then close the lid and place it in the steamer to cook well

7.     After 3-5 minutes, steam start come out through the puttu maker’s lid holes

8.     Cook for 10-15 minutes totally (until the flour inside is cook well to eat)

9.  Turn off the stove and take the puttu maker from the steamer

10.   Then take out the puttu / steamed cake

11.    Now the ragi puttu or finger millet puttu or panja pullu puttu or ragi steamed cake is ready to serve

This can be served with banana, kadala curry (chick peas curry), fish curry, chicken curry etc….

I am sure that you will love the taste….. Write your feedback in the form of comments, suggestions, and criticisms before you go to the next page….Your words are my inspiration…