Puttu Kadala
Puttu Kadala is a Kerala Indian breakfast dish made with rice flour, grated coconut, salt, water and other everyday ingredients. The full ingredient list and method are below.
- Total time (approx.)
- 60 min
- Calories (estimate)
- ~550 kcal
- Course
- Breakfast
- Cuisine
- Kerala (Indian)
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Ingredients
What goes into Puttu Kadala. This recipe lists ingredients without measured quantities — scale them to the number of people you are cooking for and season to taste.
- Rice flour
- Grated coconut
- Salt
- Water
- Black chickpeas
- Onion
- Ginger-garlic-green chili paste
- Curry leaves
- Coconut oil
- Roasted coconut masala
Method
- 1For Puttu: Mix rice flour with salt and water to moisten.
- 2Layer moist flour and grated coconut in a puttu maker.
- 3Steam for 8-10 minutes until cooked.
- 4For Kadala: Soak chickpeas overnight and cook until tender.
- 5Sauté onion, ginger-garlic-chili paste, and curry leaves in coconut oil.
- 6Add roasted coconut masala and cook well.
- 7Add cooked chickpeas and water; simmer for 10-15 minutes.
- 8Season with salt and serve hot with puttu.
About these numbers: the time shown is an approximate overall cooking time, and the calorie figure is a rough estimate for one serving of the dish as described — not a laboratory analysis. Both will change with your portion size, ingredients and how much fat you cook with. Dietary tags describe the dish in general terms; always check the labels on what you buy. Nothing here is medical or dietary advice. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we will fix it.
