Pittu

Pittu is a special south Indian delicacy. If at all you want to make a sweet as well as spicy item for your breakfast, then this is a handy recipe that you can make. Same base serves for both the items. :)


To make dhall idly

Ingredients:

Bengal gram dhall - 1 cup
Moong dhall - 1 cup
Salt - for taste

Method:

Soak both the dhalls together for an hour. Grind it coarsely in the consistency of idly batter. Now add salt to it and make idlis.

After it cools down completely, sprinkle little hot water and crumble it well. You can run it in the mixie for few seconds to make this job easier.

Once this is done partition it into two portions to make sweet pittu as well as spicy pittu.



Sweet Pittu

Ingredients:

Dhall Idly Crumbles: 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - a pinch
Coconut scrapings - 2 tbsp
Cashews - few
Ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

Take the sugar in a pan and add some water to it and boil till one string consistency. Put the crumbled idlis, mix well and remove from fire. Add grated fresh coconut, fried cashew nuts, cardamom powder along with little ghee. This pittu is slightly sticky in nature.

This is a lovely and healthy sweet that you can make along with the spicy once for breakfast on special occasions.


Spicy Pittu

Ingredients:

Dhall Idly Crumbles: 1 cup
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Bengal gram dhal - 1/2 tsp
Urad dhall - 1/2 tsp
Chilly - 4(According to your taste)
Coconut scrapings - 2 tbsp
Lemon extract - 3 tsp
Coriander leaves
Curry leaves
Salt - for taste

Method:

In a pan, take a 3 tsp of oil and crackle mustard, bengal gram dhall, urad dhall and curry leaves. Make the chillies into a smooth paste and add it to the pan. Now put in the dhall idli crumbles and mix well. Finally add coconut scrappins, salt, lemon extract and coriander leaves to it and mix well. Spicy pittu is ready to eat. :) This pittu would be like upma. i.e crumbled form and not sticky.

Serve it hot. :) Happy cooking. :)


Written by: Nithya
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