Wheat flour puttu - atta puttu

Atta puttu, or whole wheat flour puttu is a traditional Indian breakfast that's eaten with brown sugar and ripe banana, as shown above. You just mix them  together with your hand and eat em.  
This is one of  my family's  favorite  breakfast.

The wheat flour is steamed with freshly grated coconut and it's eaten warm. It fills me up for hours that I  skip lunch altogether.

Here's how I do it.

 2 cups Wheat Flour / Atta flour
1 tbs salt

water as needed

1cup freshly grated coconut

 

The first step is to lightly brown the flour in a wok or pan for about 5 min on low fire. You have to constantly mix the flour, else it will be burnt so easily. Remove from pan and place the flour in a big bowl. Let it cool down a little.

Get a cup of water and add about one tablespoon of salt. Stir till salt dissolves,
Now add in water a little at a time and mix well with your hands. As you mix and sprinkle water over it, it will form into crumbles. 
The crumbles should not be dry, nor should it be so wet, it should form into a tight ball when you hold it and it should crumble when you drop it.

This is the vessel used to steam  puttu. If you don't have one, simply put the mix in a steamer. 
Mix coconut into the puttu mixture. 
Take a clean cloth and pour the puttu mixture in it and cover it. 
Place this inside a steamer and steam it. 
The puttu wont be in a log shape but it'll  taste the same.

Fill water in the bottom pot of the puttu gadget and heat it up.Fill it half.

Drop the holed disc inside the funnel. Now start layering the funnel.

First add some coconut in the bottom, followed by the puttu mixture, then the coconut and the puttu mixture. The top and bottom of the funnel should have coconut.

Place the funnel over the pot. Cook this for 4-5 min  until the puttu is cooked.

Now the back of a spatula,  push the disc so the puttu releases from the funnel.

Serve  puttu hot with banana and sugar.

Hope that was not too confusing to follow.

Enjoy...jue