Vella Puttu is certainly not but sweet puttu created using grain flour and jaggery.Vella Puttu is really a traditional neiveidhyam designed for Navaratri.I bookmarked this recipe this past year itself but was tight on time so skipped it.Which year after making aval puttu and gaining experience of jaggery syrup consistencies I with confidence attempted this arisi vella puttu also it arrived on the scene soo good. I really like all puttu varieties, amma constitutes a sweet puttu with sugar this one with jaggery is really a accessory for the best puttu recipes.
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Preparation Time. ten mins Cooking. 20 mins Serves. 2
Recipe Category. Sweet Recipe Cuisine. South Indian Reference. Nivedhanam
Grain Flour - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1/3 cup
Coconut - 2 tablespoons of
Cashews - 5 damaged
Cardamom powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Edible Camphor - a small pinch
Ghee -2 teaspoon
Water - 1/4 cup(for jaggery syrup) + as needed(for grain flour mixture)
* You should use commercially made grain flour(idiyappam flour) too. Use raw grain to make homemade grain flour
Method:
- Dry roast grain flour till it changes color to light brown.Awesome lower, then sprinkle water slowly and gradually making the whole flour wet. keep mixing.
- The mix should hold together whenever you press by using it together with your palms and really should crumble and fall whenever you let it rest(pidicha pidikkanam vitta uthuranum).Now collect the mix inside a clean muslin cloth and tie the ends to create a bag like. steam the mix for atelast 8-10mins.
- Awesome lower after which crumble it together with your hands to interrupt the protuberances created.Put aside.Now start preparing the jaggery syrup, add water to crushed jaggery just till immersing level.
- Strain toi remove impurities.Then warm up the syrup inside a pan.Keep water inside a plate to determine the consistency.Keep boiling before you achieve a consistency whenever you pour a small amount of the jaggery syrup in water it shouldn't get dissolved.
- It ought to form a gentle ball.This is actually the correct consistency.Inside a teaspoon of ghee fry the cashews and it ready.
- Keep your flame in sim and immediately add some cooked grain mixture.Now add ghee,cardamom powder and edible camphor.Keep mixing till it might be dry and all sorts of jaggery syrup is absorbed.Add coconut, ghee fried cashews, mix well and turn off.
My Notes:
- Grain flour mixture ought to be cooked to soft so steam it accordingly.I made use of my idli kadai steamer and steamed it.
- Following the grain mixture is steam cooked, awesome lower after which crumble it together with your hands to interrupt the protuberances created.
- Should you increase the water to create jaggery syrup then you definitely to help keep on stirring for lengthy to obtain the preferred consistency.
- Whenever you add some grain flour mixture towards the jaggery syrup it'll look moist don't worrykeep stirring, the grain flour mixture will absorb all of the jaggery after couple of mins you will notice the puttu dry.
- The consistency check is an essential here apart from that there's no recourse factors involved.Make certain you do not miss the consistency else the following stage is going to be hard ball consistency and you'll not obtain the puttu in perfect texture.
- While making jaggery syrup first you can preserve in medium flame once it might be thick then switch it to low medium flame and prepare till perfect consistency is arrived at.
- Make certain to strain the jaggery syrup to prevent impurities.