Vellam Puttu | Vella Puttu | Navarathri Neivedhiyam
Vellam puttu/Steamed Rice flour, sweetened using Jaggery. A traditional neivedhiyam/offering done during Navratri/Navrathri.
Servings 2
Calories
Equipment
- Steamer/Pressure cooker/Idy steamer
Ingredients
Ingredients
- ¼ Cup Rice Flour
- ¼ Cup Jaggery
- 2 tablespoon Freshly grated Coconut
- 2 pinches of salt
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder
- 3 nos each Almonds and Cashews
- 1 tablespoon raisins
Instructions
- Dry roast the Rice flour in a pan to just make it hot. This will take just 2 minutes. We don't want the rice flour to change color.
- Take the warm rice flour and spread it on a plate. Mix the salt in 2 tablespoon of water, sprinkle little salt-water on the flour and mix well with your hands. The Water mixed flour should hold if you hold it tightly, and collapse if you break it.
- Take the salt mixed flour in a bowl/steamer plate and steam cook it for 5-8 minutes. I used my idly steamer.
- Make sure water doesn't touch the flour, even the water droplets from steam. If using a vessel inside the steamer, then cover the rice flour container. Or you can wrap the rice flour in a cheese cloth like a bag and steam.
- After the given time, take it out of the steamer, spread it on a flat plate. Heat Jaggery with 2 tablespoon of water and prepare a syrup of single-string consistency.
- Pour this Jaggery syrup on the steamed rice flour and mix well.
- Add grated coconut, cardamom and roasted nuts and raisins . Mix well and Serve.
Notes
- There is a chance of the Jaggery syrup getting into ball-like consistency, in that case, the puttu might become little clumpy. Do not Worry, let the puttu rest for sometime, then take it in a mixer and pulse it 2-3 times and transfer it to a flat plate, the puttu will separate and become powdery