Wednesday, 20 April 2011

How to prepare flour to make soft puttu and iddiyappam

Let me show how to make rice flour to get soft
puttu and string hoppers.

TIPS ON HOW TO PREPARE SOFT FLOUR

How to prepare flour:

This is how to prepare flour to make soft puttu and iddiyappam

Soak 500 grms of rice in water for 2 hours.
Drain and dry it on a thick towel for few hours.
The rice must be dry, but still cold to the touch.
Make fine flour out of this using a mixie.
Cover this flour in a cloth and steam it in a steamer
Or idli cooker for 10 to 15 minutes.
When cooked the flour dosen’t stick to your hands when touched.
When cold break up the lumps and dry it in the hot sun.
Sieve it once and let it dry nicely.
Store it in an airtight container.
This way the flour will stay fresh for a long time.

Note: The above method is to keep the flour.
If you doing the puttu , or iddiyappam immediately, you need not dry the flour. This flour can be used for all kinds of steamed palagarams.

This is how the steamed flour will look like.

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