Carrot Puttu

Ingredients


1.Rice flour/Arippodi/Samba wheat puttu podi/ Any kind of puttu podi - 2 cup
2.Salt- as required
3.Water-as required
4.Carrot -1 grated
5.Cumin seeds/Jeerakam -1tsp(optional)
6.Curry leaves -1 spring (optional)
7.Coconut- 5 tsp

Preparation


1.Crush 1tsp cumin seeds and 1 spring curry leaves together.Add this to the puttu podi and mix well.
2.Mix salt with water and sprinkle this to the powdered flour  just to make the powder wet.
Do not pour a lot of water
3.Finally add 1 grated carrot to it and mix well.(Add carrot  last otherwise its difficult to mix the powder )
4.You need puttukudam to make puttu.
5.Put a hand-full of grated coconut  in the puttu kutty and then put puttu podi.
  If you like coconut you can add coconut in the middle section and top of puttukutty.
6.Close the lid and steam it for 5 minutes
7.Serve puttu hot.