Cereals high in B-complex Vitamins can be used as main ingredients to prepare energy rich steam cake. When you are bored with routine rice/ragi steam cakes, you can try this one once in a while.

Energy Steam Cake recipe

Ingredients for Energy Steam Cake (Energy Puttu):

1. Rice flour fried – ½ cup

    Wheat flour heated slightly – ½ cup

    Ragi powder – 1/4 cup

2. Salt and water – As required

3. Carrot grated – 1/4 cup

    Coconut grated – 1/4 cup

4. Groundnut – 100 gm

    Ghee – 1 big spoon

How to prepare Energy Steam Cake (Energy Puttu)?

1. Mix together all the powders along with sufficient water and salt to prepare Puttu powder.

2. Place the Puttu maker (steam cooker for making the steam cake) and wait till steam starts coming out.

3. Put coconut, puttu powder, and grated carrot in two or more layers and steam cook them.

4. Just before you serve, decorate with ground nuts fried in ghee.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine 2010, March 1-14

You can read a few more delicious steamcake recipes here. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read. 

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