Nool Puttu Recipe (Steamed thread-puttu) Coorg Recipe

 Nool Puttu Recipe (Steamed thread-puttu)
- Ingredients:

3 cups tari or idly rava (broken rice)
6 cups water (approx)
Salt to Taste
1 tablespoon ghee
1 teaspoon cardamom, powdered

3 cups tari will give you about 12 noolputtus
Keep a steamer ready, with water simmering.
Method:

Bring the water, to which the cardamom powder, salt and ghee have been added to a boil.
Add the tari, and cook, stirring, on a medium heat to make a thick, moist dough.
Grease palms of the hand with ghee.
Take tennis ball sized handfuls of the dough, and mold into a roughly cylindrical shape.
Place the balls of dough in a thin muslin cloth, cover, and place in steamer for about 15 – 20 mins.

Using a nool puttu press, squeeze out each ball of cooked rice onto a saucer lightly greased with ghee. Rotate the saucer as the dough is squeezed out, so that the puttu is a circular mound. Serve with chicken curry and melted ghee.