Puttu, is a traditional breakfast dish prepared by steam cooking rice flour along with grated coconut. Verieties of puttu preparation is becoming a trend in Kerala Cuisine from street side restaurants to Star Hotels. I have a few Puttu reicipies shared in my previous blogs.  Here I share my own version of a delicious Puttu preparation – EGG MASALA PUTTU Rice flour layered with Egg Masala and grated coconut. 

Ingredients

For Masala

1. Onion Sliced : 2 (medium)
2. Turmeric powder : 1 pinch (big)
3. Chilli powder : 1 ½  T- Sp (Adjust)
4. Garam masala : ¼ T- Sp
5. Oil : 2 Tbl- Sp (Adjust)
6. Salt for taste
7. Curry leaves
8. Boiled eggs : 2

For Puttu

1. Rice flour : 1 Cup
2. Coconut : ¾  Cup (Adjust)
3. Salt for taste
4. Water : ~ ½ Cup(Adjust)

Method

• Slice the boiled eggs and keep it.
• Heat oil in a pan and sauté the onion with salt until brown and soft.
• Add the curry leaves and sauté it.
• Then add the chilli powder, turmeric powder and fry it for about 1 minute .
• Finally add the garam masala and the sliced boiled egg and mix everything together. Switch off the stove.

• In a vessel, add the rice flour along with salt and ½ cup of coconut and mix it.
• Sprinkle water a little at a time and make a moistened puttu podi, the consistency should look like bread crumbs.
• Boil water in a puttu maker/pressure cooker.
• I used coconut shell for making the puttu, you can use your puttu maker alternately. First spread a little coconut followed by the puttu podi and then the masala. Repeat the layering until the coconut shell is full, make sure to finish a coconut layer and close it.
• Keep the coconut shell in the stem of the pressure cooker.
• Steam it until the puttu is completely cooked.