Southindian Breakfast Tapioca Puttu Recipe (Tapioca Rice Cakes)

Puttu is a breakfast dish prepared across southindian. Puttu is also served for lunch and dinner with meat curry or a simple vegetable curry. During tapioca season from nov to march, one should never miss to prepare puttu. Freshly harvested tapioca is so tender and tasty it is easy to clean and grate. 

When buying tapioca only few points to be noted, tapioca should be white in and should not have dark spots inside the flesh. Skin mush be flaky, if there is pinkish peel it's even better the tuber is fresh.

In my basics video I've posted a detail video how to clean and prep the tapioca. do watch the video for more info...

How to prepare tapioca puttu video watch and learn 😊

Ingredients:

500 Grams Fresh Tapioca (Peeled and Washed)

300 Grams Rice Flour

300 to 450 Grams Freshly Grated Coconut

Salt as per taste

Banana Leaves 

Tooth Picks

To Serve: Sugar, Ghee, Banana

Method:

Wash, peel and grate the tapioca.

Add the grated tapioca to a bowl of water and allow to rest for few minutes.

Rub the tapioca with your fingers and wash off excess starch on the tapioca.

Repeat the process and rinse of excess starch from tapioca at least thrice.

Squeeze of excess moisture from tapioca and reserve in a colander.

Allow excess moisture from tapioca to drain, do not be hasty when following this step.

Once the tapioca is drained, add approx. 3 to 4 tbsp of grated tapioca  to a mixer grinder along with 2 tbsp of rice flour and pulse thrice to form a coarse powdery texture. 

Reserve the grated tapioca in a plate, follow and repeat the step and prepare an entire batch of tapioca flour.

Add 1 tbsp salt and mix till well incorporated in the tapioca.

Cut the banana leaf into equal squares.

Roll the banana leaf to form a cylinder shape and secure with a toothpick from unraveling.

 

Rest one end of the cylinder on a flat surface.

Start to layer with grated coconut and tapioca. Form three layers and gently press the layers.\

We can follow the same step and prepare puttu in a tumbler and place the moulded puttu to steam.

Heat a steamer with enough water to cook the puttu.

Place the prepared puttu in the steamer, cover and steam cook on low flame for 5 to 10 minutes on medium flame.

After 10 minutes touch and check if the puttu is firm and start serving it hot.

We can serve puttu with curry, or ghee and sugar and enjoy the fluffy and delicious puttu for breakfast 😊

Many people use puttu contraption to cook the puttu but I've focused and shown how we can use natural products like banana leaf or utensils which we already have like tumbler to mould and prepare the puttu without a puttu maker. Hope every with try this method 😌