Wheat Puttu - Gothambu Puttu

Wheat or Gothambu is considered as very healthy for your body. people usually prefer to have wheat flour varieties for breakfast and for supper. Though wheat varieties are famous in the North of India, people in south too have made it a part of their diet.

Most of the people in South of India are not aware of the fact as to when Wheat became a part and parcel of the diet of the people of south. but I do remember my grandmother telling me about how she came to use wheat flour for making breakfast delicacies like chappathis, parattas and puttu.

According to her, there was a kind of scarcity for rice years back. It was a family friend of my grandparents who taught my grandma how to make parattas and chappathis out of wheat flour. Well i was very curious to listen to all those things in the past which my granny used to tell me. And this one really was an interesting incident that told me the story of how my granny started using wheat flour.

So the recipe for the day is Wheat puttu. Wheat puttu is a healthy breakfast and can be accompanied with vegetable curry, beef curry, fish curry or even with ripe yellow bananas.

Ingredients

·         Wheat flour – 3 cups (Serves 2)

·         Grated Coconut – 1 cup

·         Water –

·         Salt

Method

·         Take a vessel and add the sufficient quantity of Wheat flour (Atta) to it.

·         Add ¼ teaspoon of salt to the flour

·         Mix well

·         Sprinkle a handful of water to the flour and mix carefully

·         Let the whole flour get moisture

·         Do not add too much of water to the flour or else it will get sticky

·         If you feel the flour is not wet, you may sprinkle some more water

·         The flour should be moist as if we make a crumble. Not so wet and not so dry. Just the right moisture to get it cooked well.

·         Puttu kutti chembu should be filled with water atleast ½ portion of it

·         Let the water boil well

·         Wet the puttu kutti and put the chillu in it

·         Add grated coconut to the bottom of the puttu kutti

·         Now add a handful of wheat flour mix

·         The next layer would be the coconut grating and then add wet flour until the puttu kutti gets filled up

·         Place the puttu kutti filled with moist flour to the puttu chembu.

·         Let the puttu cook for 10 min

·         After 10 min, push the puttu kutti with the help of a long spoon or spatula

·         Serve hot with vegetable curry, beef curry or with bananas

Wheat puttu serves as a good breakfast and can also make your supper healthy too. Try this out and stay healthy!!