Sweet Rice Puttu

Sweet Rice Puttu

Sweet Rice Puttu is prepared during Navaratri, specialy on Friday as Neivedhyam. This is also prepared for Puberty event in Tamilnadu.

Ingredients:

Raw rice - 2 cups

Jaggery - 1.5 cups

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Grated coconut -1/2 cup

Cardoman powder - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1 tsp

Cashews - 10 nos

Method:

# Soak rice for 1 hr. Drain water and put the rice in cotton cloth, let it dry.

# Make a fine powder in mixie.

# Dry roast the rice flour to pinkish colour.

# Heat some water add salt and turmeric powder. 

# Sprinkle hot water little by little to the rice flour and mix well.( Consistency should  be when you hold the flour it should hold a shape)

# Tie the rice flour in a cotton cloth and   steam for 15 - 20 min.

# Let the mixture cool for some time.

# Sieve the rice flour. (consistency of the mixture will be like a beach sand)

 #Take jaggery and boil well. Filter the syrup to remove impurities. Boil the jaggery syrup until you get a ball consistency.

# Add jaggery little by little in the rice flour mixture. In few min rice flour mixture will come to Puttu consistency.

Add cardoman powder, grated coconut, and fried cashew.

mix well and serve.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank U!