Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu / Arisi Vella Puttu is a traditional neivedhyam dish for Navratri fridays in my home town. Also for Puberty event, this is one of the important sweet dish we do. It's sightly a lengthy recipe, but finally the taste is divine. Try and let me know your comments!!!
Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu Arisi Vella Puttu is a traditional neivedhyam dish for Navratri fridays in my home town. I personally Love Navratri festival for many reasons. First, its the only festival that is exclusive for women, all 9 days we pray to Goddesses, arranging Golu and decorating park, last but not the least, its the sundal and sweet varieties that we make and we get from other homes.
Another Way to make Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu :
This is my Periamma’s signature recipe.My MIL makes this Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu / Arisi Vella Puttu in a different way. She will first soak the rice, spread it and dry and then grind it to smooth powder and then fry the rice flour till brown and steam cook finally crumble the steam cooked rice flour and add it to jaggery syrup and cook till it crumble. This is another way to make puttu.
I personally prefer the below recipe more authentic and right in consistency than the above one. I have tried many times since I learned it from my Aunt and every time it turns out perfect. Puttu should be in a beach sand consistency, and blindly following this below recipe, we will get that perfect sand consistency. Try this way of making Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu Arisi Vella Puttu and share your comments!
Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu / Arisi Vella Puttu is a traditional neivedhyam dish for Navratri fridays in my home town. Also for Puberty event, this is one of the important sweet dish we do. It's sightly a lengthy recipe, but finally the taste is divine. Try and let me know your comments!!!
Wash the raw rice in water at least 2-3 times to remove starch from it and soak it for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, strain the water using a strainer.
Heat a pan and add 1/4th quantity of soaked and drained raw rice and fry it in medium flame.
Using a spatula mix it continuously so that after nearly 5 minutes, we could see the rice start to sputter and the color slightly change to brown color. Remove this batch.
Again add the next 1/4th quantity and repeat the process till all the rice are fried nicely and we get a nice aroma. In the same way complete the rest of the rice also in two batches. The reason why we are doing in batches is to make sure that the rice is being fried uniformly without getting over burn.
Allow the rice to cool off and grind it along with cardamom to a nice and smooth powder.
Steam Cooking the Rice flour
Heat 3/4 cup of water along with turmeric and salt till the water is warm. Take the rice flour in a plate or a bowl and slowly sprinkle the warm water little by little and mix the flour well.
The consistency is “Pidicha Pidikamudiyanum, vita udhiranum”. That means if we hold a fist full of flour tightly, it should hold and if we drop, it should again break. This is the right consistency. Don’t add too much of water.
Grease the idli plates with oil and add one fist full of slightly wet rice flour in each place of the idli plate and steam cook them for at least 12 minutes.
Once the rice flour is steam cooked, remove and cool them. Take the siever and add the rawa sieve plate and add the steam cooked rice flour dumplings and using your hand gently spread and press the rice flour so that it is nicely broken down into pieces. The cooked rice flour should be like a beach sand smoothness.
Preparing Jaggery Syrup
Now heat a pan and add 1 teaspoon of ghee and add the broken cashews and fry till they turn golden brown color. Remove them and keep it aside.
Then add the grated coconut and fry till they turn golden brown color. Take this also aside.
In the same pan, add grated jaggery and 1 tablespoon of water and allow it to boil. When the jaggery is dissolved in water, strain it using a strainer to remove any sand. Again heat the strained jaggery juice and allow it to boil. When the jaggery juice starts to thick and reach stone consistency, we need to remove the jaggery juice from the flame. We can test the right consistency, by pouring 2-3 drops of jaggery juice in a cup of water and if it doesn’t dissolve and if you take the drop of jaggery juice in your finger and roll it to a ball, then it is the right consistency.
Now add the sieved cooked rice flour and mix well.
Add ghee, fried coconut and cashews and mix well.
The yummy and scrumptious Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu / Arisi Vella Puttu is ready for Neivedhyam or for serving.
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Nutritional Info
Nutrition Facts
Sweet Rice Jaggery Puttu / Arisi Vella Puttu
Amount Per Serving (1 cup)
Calories 208Calories from Fat 27
% Daily Value*
Fat 3g5%
Carbohydrates 39g13%
Protein 2g4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Method:
Preparing Rice:
Wash the raw rice in water atleast 2-3 times to remove starch from it and soak it for 30 minutes
After 30 minutes, strain the water using a strainer.
Heat a pan and add 1/4th quantity of soaked and drained raw rice and fry it in medium flame.
Using a spatula mix it continuously so that after nearly 5 minutes, we could see the rice start to sputter and the color slightly change to brown color. Remove this batch
Again add the next 1/4th quantity and repeat the process till all the rice are fried nicely and we get a nice aroma. In the same way complete the rest of the rice also in two batches. The reason why we are doing in batches is to make sure that the rice is being fried uniformly without getting over burn.
Steam Cooking Process:
Allow the rice to cool off and grind it along with cardamom to a nice and smooth powder.Heat 3/4 cup of water along with turmeric and salt till the water is warm. Take the rice flour in a plate or a bowl and slowly sprinkle the warm water little by little and mix the flour well. The consistency is “Pidicha Pidikamudiyanum, vita udhiranum”. That means if we hold a fist full of flour tightly, it should hold and if we drop, it should again break. This is the right consistency. Don’t add too much of water.
Grease the idli plates with oil and add one fist full of slightly wet rice flour in each place of the idli plate and steam cook them for atleast 12 minutes
Once the rice flour is steam cooked, remove and cool them. Take the siever and add the rawa sieve plate and add the steam cooked rice flour dumplings and using your hand gently spread and press the rice flour so that it is nicely broken down into pieces. The cooked rice flour should be like a beach sand smoothness
Preparing Jaggery Syrup
Now heat a pan and add 1 teaspoon of ghee and add the broken cashews and fry till they turn golden brown color. Remove them and keep it aside
Then add the grated coconut and fry till they turn golden brown color. Take this also aside.
In the same pan, add grated jaggery and 1 tablespoon of water and allow it to boil. When the jaggery is dissolved in water, strain it using a strainer to remove any sand. Again heat the strained jaggery juice and allow it to boil. When the jaggery juice starts to thick and reach stone consistency, we need to remove the jaggery juice from the flame. We can test the right consistency, by pouring 2-3 drops of jaggery juice in a cup of water and if it doesn’t dissolve and if you take the drop of jaggery juice in your finger and roll it to a ball, then it is the right consistency
Now add the sieved cooked rice flour and mix well.
Add ghee, fried coconut and cashews and mix well
The yummy and scrumptious Puttu is ready for Neivedhyam or for serving
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Today I made puttu by seeing the post.My amma is expert in this. I opened the blog and referred now and then.I am first time maker of puttu and first time to comment in food blog. Normally in my AMMA place every one ask help from amma to make Puttu . But today I made with help of you.Thank u so much . I will try to share my photograph. Kindly send me u r ID.Thanks a lot.
Namaskarams from Canada. I made this puttu today for my daughters puberty function . I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart as it turned out perfect. I felt as if my mom was right here in Canada with me giving instructions. Please bless my daughters .
Madam,saw your vellaputtu receipe.nice .But,when I tried to make it didn’t come out well.not soft and uthir like your video.It was like hard, kindly explain what was the mistake.
So sorry to hear. IF the vellum consistency is not soft ball then the puttu will become harder. Also if we are not adding enough warm water and mix the rice flour rice flour don’t get properly steam cooked which also makes the puttu harder.
awesome…:)
Came out very well..
Never fried the rice, in fact always bought readymade puttu arisi powder. Nice recipe. Will try this version. Thx.
Today I made puttu by seeing the post.My amma is expert in this. I opened the blog and referred now and then.I am first time maker of puttu and first time to comment in food blog. Normally in my AMMA place every one ask help from amma to make Puttu . But today I made with help of you.Thank u so much . I will try to share my photograph. Kindly send me u r ID.Thanks a lot.
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Dear Subbu Mami
Namaskarams from Canada. I made this puttu today for my daughters puberty function . I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart as it turned out perfect. I felt as if my mom was right here in Canada with me giving instructions. Please bless my daughters .
Namaskarams from our family to yours.
So So glad to hear! Feeling blessed. Thank you so much. God bless your daughter!
Madam,saw your vellaputtu receipe.nice .But,when I tried to make it didn’t come out well.not soft and uthir like your video.It was like hard, kindly explain what was the mistake.
So sorry to hear. IF the vellum consistency is not soft ball then the puttu will become harder. Also if we are not adding enough warm water and mix the rice flour rice flour don’t get properly steam cooked which also makes the puttu harder.