Rava Puttu is a delicious breakfast/evening time snack made with semolina and grated coconut. Puttu is a common recipe in Kerala Cuisine prepared from roasted rice flour. This is a variant dish made with semolina. Rava Puttu tastes delicious and soft and goes well with Kadala Curry. You can enjoy the healthy breakfast dish with any side dish that suits your taste. This is one of the easiest of dishes that can be prepared with very minimal ingredients. This is a unique and special dish with a moist rava mixture cooked in a puttu maker until cooked. Puttu is a healthy breakfast dish and working mothers and bachelors will find the dish very useful. Kids love puttu with bananas and sugar. This is a nutritious dish and you will enjoy the goodness of semolina. You can explore a well detailed recipe here that can be easily prepared at home.
For preparing the healthy dish, first take a bowl and add 2 tbsp grated coconut with a little warm water. Keep this aside.
Heat a pan, add rava and dry roast it till the nice aroma comes from it, By the time it is roasted well, it slightly changes its color too. Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely. Add it into the bowl with coconut and mix it with your hands until the rava is well moist.
Take a handful of rava and press it with your fist. It should hold the shape, then press it with your thumb. It should crumble, that's the correct stage of rava.
Take the puttu maker and add the grated coconut and then add moist rava. Repeat the same and finish off with coconut. Steam cook it for 5 minutes in medium flame.
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