Kuzhai Puttu (Tube Puttu)
VegIdiyappam-style rice flour layered with grated coconut and sugar inside a puttu tube and steamed into a sweet puttu.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Total time
- 30 min
- Servings
- 4
- Difficulty
- Medium
CategoriesPuttuSweet
Ingredients
- Idiyappam flour (roasted rice flour) (sprinkled with salt water and prepared as for idiyappam)
- 1 Coconut (grated)
- as needed Sugar
Instructions
- Sprinkle a little salt water over the idiyappam flour and prepare the puttu flour as described earlier. Grate the coconut.
- In the puttu tube, first put a layer of grated coconut, then a handful of the flour, then sprinkle a little sugar. Follow with another layer of grated coconut.
- Repeat the layers of flour, sugar, and grated coconut this way until the tube is filled to the top, then close the lid. Pour water into the puttu pot, fit the tube onto it, and steam.
- Once steam starts coming through the hole in the lid, remove the tube and push the puttu out from the bottom using a stick.