Mapillai Samba Puttu

DIFFICULTYBeginner

YIELDS1 Serving

Prep Time 4 hours

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 4 hours 25 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Mapillai Samba rice
• ¼ cup Grated coconut
• ¼ cup Sugar
• ½ teaspoon Elaichi Powder
• 1 teaspoon Ghee
• Salt to taste
• Water as required

Pre-preparation:

• Rinse the rice extensively and soak it for four hours.
• Flush the rice and clean it with fabric for 15-20 minutes.
• Maintain it in a hot place or in a cool place.
• Place the rice in the mixie after expelling it from the cloth.
• Grind till it replicates dust.
• Retain the flour in a separate pot.

Method:

1. Add the flour and salt to a bowl and mix.
2. Combine in a little hot water at a time to your fingertips. Once you grab a handful of flour among your arms, this should retain its shape; once you wiggle it once again, it should fall to pieces.
3. Heat water in an idli pan.
4. Bend the flour into a fabric and vaporise it for 15-20 minutes on moderate flame.
5. Turn the heat down.
6. Heat a Kadai with ghee, then add nuts and grated coconut. cook it extensively
7. Place the dumplings puttu in a pot and top with the elaichi powder and coconut nut combination.
8. Mix in the sugar/jaggery extensively.
9. A most flavoured Mapillai samba puttu is prepared.