Godhumai puttu in tamil / Wheat flour puttu / Healthy recipes / கோதுமை புட்டு

Ingredients:

2 cup – Wheat flour / godhumai maavu
5 tbsp – Grated coconut
1 tsp – Ghee
2 tbsp – Sugar (or add as needed)
Water as required
Salt as required

Method
1. Dry roast wheat flour over medium or low flame, continue roasting for about 5 minutes or until you get nice aroma and raw smell goes. By the time wheat flour would have changed its color to a slightly brown color not too dark. Remove from the stove. Be attentive while roasting the wheat flour. Because flour will easily get burnt and might smell bad too. Also it will spoil the taste of puttu.

2. Transfer roasted wheat flour immediately to a mixing bowl. Add salt and mix well. When the flour is completely cooled to room temperature, sprinkle water little by little to the flour and mix gently. The flour should look slightly crumbly texture.

3. Next comes the very important process that is, transfer the crumbly flour to a mixer grinder and give 1 or 2 pulse to get soft and lump free texture.

4. Meanwhile preheat idly cooker / puttu maker, spread the crumbly flour and grated coconut and steam it for 10 minutes or until well cooked. Allow them to cool.

5. Bring back the cooked puttu to the mixing bowl, add required sugar and ghee, mix everything well together and serve immediately.

Notes:

• The texture of puttu is very important to bring tasty and nice appealing puttu

• The right consistency of puttu flour will allow you to create a small firm ball and when you crumble it will become powder.

• While making wheat puttu, it is very important and must to pulse the flour 1 or 2 times in blender to get nice, soft and lump free puttu.

• You can increase or decrease sugar and coconut as per your taste.

• I used idly cooker to make puttu, if you prefer you can use puttu maker.