Palak Kappa Puttu (Spinach-Tapioca Steam Cake)
Ingredients for Palak Kappa Puttu:
1. Oil – 1 small spoon
2. Mustard – ½ small spoon
3. Onions – 1 cut into small pieces
4. Palak (green spinach) chopped – 1 cup
5. Garlic – 1 clove
Green chillies – 1
Cumin seeds – ¼ to ½ small spoon
Coconut scrapped – ½ cup
6. Tapioca boiled adding salt – 2 cups
Salt – As required
7. Green chillies – 3
Ginger – 1 small piece
Shallots – 5
Coconut scrapped – ½ cup
How to prepare Palak Kappa Puttu?
1. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 5.
2. Heat oil, splutter mustards and then sauté onions.
3. Add palak and sauté again.
4. Add the fine paste of ingredients no: 5 and sauté well with palak and take away from flame.
5. Blend once ingredients no: 7 and mix with cooked tapioca.
6. Now make steam cake as usual, by filling the puttumaker (puttu kutti) with tapioca and palak in alternate layers.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine Archive – June 15-30, 2017
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