Puttu and Kadala Curry (Steamed ricecake with chickpeas curry)

A very common breakfast of a  Malayali ...and tasty too :)

Puttu

Ingredients (Serves 2 to 3 people)

Rice flour: 1 Cup (Not too fine)
Salt: As Required
Water: 1 Cup
Grated Coconut: 1/2 Cup

Requirement : Puttu kutti / Puttu maker

(Puttu kutti / Puttu maker)

Cooking time: 5 to 8 minutes
Method
To the rice flour add required salt and mix well
To this add water little by little and stirr well with your hands. 
To check wether you have added enough water just take a handful of rice flour and hold it tightly. The flour should retain the shape, but crumble when you break.
To the puttu kutti first add little grated coconut, then put 2 handfull of rice flour and then again coconut
Repeat the same till top of the puttu kutti and attach the puttu kutti to the puttu vessel and steam
(The puttu vessel should have almost half  of it filled with water.)
Once the puttu is done you can see steam comming from top of the puttu kutti

Note:
You can use rice flour either available in market or you can make it by yourself
Soak white rice in water for 4 to 5 hours.
Wash it and stain off the water
Then dry grind it to make rice powder.
The rice flour should not be too fine
Roast this flour for about 5 to 6 minutes.
You will get the smell of puttu when it is done.

Kadala Curry

Ingredients (Serves 3 to 4 people)

Black Chana: 1 Cup
Onion: 1
Green Chilli: 3 - 4
Crushed Ginger: 1/2 Tea Spoon
Curry Leaves
Salt
Water
Turmeric Powder: 1/2 Tea Spoon
Red Chilli Powder: 2 Tea Spoon
Corriander: 2 Tea Spoon
Garam Masala: 1/2 Tea Spoon
Coconut: 1 Cup
Coconut Oil: 2 - 3 Table Spoon
Mustard Seeds: 1/2 Tea Spoon

Preparation Time: One night
Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Method
Soak chana over night
To a pan add 1 table spoon of oil and fry the coconut.
When it becomes brown in color add corriander powder, red chilli powder and garam masala powder to it and stirr in low flame for some more time.
Once cooled, grind it to a fine paste by adding required amount of water
Cook chana with a little turmeric powder
To a pan add 1 table spoon of coconut oil and saute the onion
Once the onion becomes tender add green chillies, curry leaves and crushed ginger and saute well
To this, add the cooked chana and add required salt and water
Once this starts to boil, add the grinded coconut paste and boil it well
Pour coconut oil to a pan add mustard seeds, once it finishes popping, pour this to the curry

Note
To make kadala curry much more tastier you can add some fried coconut pieces also.
If you add curry leaves while frying the coconut your gravy will have more brown colour and have a good flavour too.