Aval Puttu

Evening Tiffin, Festival recipes, Indian Sweets, Naivedyam Recipes, Tamil New Year Recipes, Traditional recipes

Aval puttu is a traditional sweet prepared using beaten rice mainly for Chithirai Vishu (Tamil New Year). We usually offer this sweet dish to the deities at home as neivedyam during festivals especially Chithirai Vishu and also serve as prasadam during Navarathri. Beaten rice (rice flakes) is easily digestible, and the gluten in rice is reduced to a large extent when beaten. So we can also serve aval puttu as a light healthy snack on other days.

img_8012 Aval Puttu
Aval puttu

This humble sweet tastes divine when served with a scoop of ice cream or served with payasam.

img_8017 Aval Puttu
Aval puttu served with ice cream

It is a simple dish but it tastes scrumptious only when we get the right texture. So we need to follow each and every step meticulously to make perfect puttu. Now let’s look into the recipe for aval puttu as below:

img_8010-scaled Aval Puttu

Aval puttu recipe:

Time Taken: 30 min

Serves : 3

Ingredients:

  1. Thick beaten rice (ketti aval) or poha – 1 cup
  2. Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  3. Salt – 1/8 tsp
  4. Water – 1 cup (for soaking beaten rice)
  5. Jaggery – 3/4 cup
  6. Water – 1/2 cup (for syrup)
  7. Coconut – 1/3
  8. Cardamom – 1 No.
  9. Ghee – 1 tsp
  10. Cashewnuts – 14 Nos.
  • img_7855-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7986-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7870-scaled Aval Puttu

Cooking method:

  • Grind coconut & cardamom coarsely and keep aside.
  • Heat a pan with ghee, roast cashew nuts till golden and keep aside.
  • img_7997 Aval Puttu
  • img_8003 Aval Puttu
  • img_8004 Aval Puttu
  • Dry roast poha in a hot pan, grind into a coarse powder and keep aside.
  • Boil water with turmeric powder & salt.
  • Pour hot turmeric water over powdered poha gradually, mix well and set aside to absorb the liquid completely.
  • img_7856-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7978-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7983-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7984-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7988-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7990-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7991-scaled Aval Puttu
  • img_7992-scaled Aval Puttu
Preparing aval
  • Heat a pan with jaggery & water.
  • When the syrup starts thickening add swollen poha and mix well.
  • Add ground coconut & roasted cashews.
  • Sweet poha is ready to serve.
  • img_7989 Aval Puttu
  • img_7993 Aval Puttu
  • img_7998 Aval Puttu
  • img_7999 Aval Puttu
  • img_8000 Aval Puttu
  • img_8001 Aval Puttu
  • img_8002 Aval Puttu
  • img_8005 Aval Puttu
  • img_8010 Aval Puttu
Making aval puttu

Cooking Tips:

  • It is optional to use turmeric powder, but it is useful to adding color.
  • Please refer the pictures below to find out how the volume of aval is changed in every stage: when ground the volume is reduced by half, but when soaked in hot water the volume is doubled.
  • img_7855 Aval Puttu
  • img_7981 Aval Puttu
  • img_7988 Aval Puttu
  • img_7992 Aval Puttu

25 comments on “Aval Puttu”Add yours →

Comments are closed. You can not add new comments.

  1. Pingback: Mukkani Payasam – Megala's Kitchen

    1. You can just use toasted cashews instead, without ghee also it tastes great and it is not a star ingredient here! Btw, thanks for stopping by!

error: Content is protected !!
%d bloggers like this: