Oats Puttu

Puttu is an all time favorite for malayalis...So today lets make Oats Puttu....

Ingredients (Serves 2 to 3 people)

Oats: 1 Cup
Salt: As Required
Water: 1/2 Cup
Grated Coconut: 1/2 Cup

Requirement : Puttu kutti / Puttu maker

(Puttu kutti / Puttu maker)

Cooking time: 15 minutes
Method

Powder the oats using a mixer

Oats Powder

Dry roast the oats powder in high flame for 5 minutes.  Stir continuously, else the powder might burn.

Roasted Oats Powder

Allow the powder to cool and then add little salt to the oats powder and mix well
To this sprinkle water little by little and stir well with your hands.
The whole mixture should be wet.  You can see lumps formed.  But that's perfectly fine as by the next step it will be smooth

After Sprinkling water

Put the wet oats powder to a blender and just give it a quick blend so that it becomes smooth oats puttu podi

Final Oats Puttu podi

To the puttu kutti/maker first add little grated coconut, then put 2 handfull of oats powder and then again coconut
Repeat the same till top of the puttu kutti/maker and attach the puttu kutti/maker to the puttu vessel and steam
(The puttu vessel should have almost half  of it filled with water.)
Once steam starts to come from the top of the puttu maker keep on flame for 5 more minutes and then switch off the flame
Serve hot with kadala(chickpea) or cherupayar (Green gram) curry

Note:

While sprinkling water do it very carefully adding little water at a time.  If water becomes more the oats puttu podi will not get the correct texture, and finally you wont be able to make the puttu