Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #21 and the dish today I am posting is a Chettinad speciality. Chettinad cuisine is famous for its delicious and unique recipes. This puttu is one among them. I saw the recipe in a cook book. I also had an opportunity to taste this puttu from my neighbour. It was so nice and so I decided to try it out. As I had guests three weeks back, I decided to prepare it for them for the evening snack. Though the result was not as tasty as the puttu I tasted before, it was some what similar. As I didn’t have an idli plate to steam cook the moong dhal batter, I used a cake tin to cook it. That was the mistake I made. The puttu was a bit lumpy. Next time I would make it properly so that it crumbles well.
Ingredients:
Moong Dhal- 1cup
Brown Sugar/ Vellam-1cup
Grated Coconut-1/2cup
Ghee-1tbs
Cardamom Powder-1/4tsp
Procedure:
- Soak moong dhal for 2hours and grind it to a smooth paste adding very little water.
- Pour batter into idli plates and steam cook until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
- You can also pour the whole batter into a greased cake tin and steam cook it until done.
- Allow it to cool completely. Cut it into small pieces and mash it to form fine crumbs.
- Melt sugar with 1/8cup of water. When it is completely dissolved strain it to get rid of impurities.
- Heat it again and when it starts boiling add the moong dhal crumbs along with cardamom powder.
- Mix well. Add grated coconut and ghee and keep on cooking until the mixture becomes dry.
- Remove from flame and serve it hot or warm.
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yummy and awesome
Delicious Gayathri!!!!
You know normally I am not that much into moong daal halwa but the brown sugar and grated coconut is tempting me. Will try this soon. 🙂
looks so tempting & very very yummm
wow very healthy and innovative idea!
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Delicious sweet puttu..
We do add soaked rice along with soaked moongdal for making this puttu, just with moongdal sounds quite interesting.Lovely bowl.
Very interesting, healthy and delicious recipe!!!
Sounds so tempting..I have had this during Navarathri times..
totally new recipe..i like the chettinad cuisine, so would like to give this a try for sure
drooling here with this version of puttu…sounds delicious Gayathri
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Looks so delicious and tempting.
What a beautiful color that dal has after being cooked. Fantastic
Never had this pasiparuupu puttu.sounds yum and simple. Bookmarked.
Never had this one before. Looks nice.
A better and fatfree version than moongdal halwa.
Nice one Gayathri.
Great Recipe….
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