Steam cake, or Kerala’s traditional Puttu, is widely regarded as a healthy breakfast dish. It is mostly prepared using rice flour, other flours, or a mix of two or more flours, and other derivatives. As it’s steam-cooked, its nutritional content won’t get lost easily. Here is a healthy variety of steamcake, which also add veggies and leaves.
Ingredients for Ivy Gourd Leaf – Cauliflower Steamcake (Koval Ila – Cauliflower Puttu):
1. Rice flour for steam cake – 100 gm
Cauliflower chopped fine – 50 gm
Ivy gourd chopped fine – 25 gm
Ivy gourd leaves chopped fine – 2 big spoons
2. Salt and water – As needed
How to prepare Ivy Gourd Leaf – Cauliflower Steamcake (Koval Ila – Cauliflower Puttu)?
1. Mix ingredients no: 1 together first.
2. Add sufficient water and salt, and prepare flour for the steam cake.
3. Rest it for a while and steam cook it.
4. Serve it with gooseberry curry.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, Jul 8 – 21, 2023
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