Moong Dhal Puttu/Pittu

Puttu/pittu is a traditional South Indian delicacy served as a breakfast item for special occasions in our households. Moon dhal puttu is a healthy and delicious sweet puttu which I had it first time in one of my athai's(father's sister) place.My athai's MIL who is an excellent cook made this one for us when we went to their house after our wedding,liked the puttu and got the recipe from her.I made this on Friday, for prasadham to god and used the split moong dhal,originally it is made with whole moong.

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Moong dhal(Paasi paruppu,split)	1/2cup
Channa dhal(kadalai paruppu)	2tbs
Raw rice	1tbs
Sugar	1cup(approximately)
Cashews	2tbs
Coconut(grated)	1/4cup
Cardamom Powder	1/4tsp
Ghee	2tbs
Salt	a pinch

Method

                     Soak the dhals and rice together for 3-4 hours and grind it coarsely in a blender with little water and a pinch of salt.
Grease the idly plate and pour the ground mixture in each mould and steam it in the pressure cooker or idly steamer till it gets cooked.Take out the cooked dhals from the idly mould and crumble it with sprinkling little water,once it becomes warm(food processor works good)
Now measure the the crumbled dhal mixture in a cup(tightly packed) and take little less than half a cup of sugar for each cup of crumbled dhal.Make sugar syrup by adding water to single string consistency.
Add in the crumbled dhal,stir it followed by grated coconut,cardamom powder,fried cashews and ghee.Mix it well and keep it in the low flame for a minute.
Puttu is ready.

Enjoy......

• Instead of sugar jaggery or brown sugar can be used.
• This puttu will be sticky when it is hot,becomes crumbly after cool down.
• Do not keep in the flame not more than a minute after adding everything in the sugar syrup otherwise it will turn hard and rubbery.
• Equal quantity of dhals (moong dhal+channa dhal)can also be used.
• Grinding the dhals in the food processor gives a perfect coarse batter.
  

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