Indian Breakfast is an essential meal to start your day, and South India offers a variety of delicious options. Indian Breakfast dishes like Idli, Dosa, and Vada are popular across the country. A typical Indian Breakfast in South India often consists of steaming hot Idlis served with sambar and chutney. Indian Breakfast recipes like Rava Idli and Upma are also quick and easy to make. For a nutritious Indian Breakfast, you can try Pongal, a rice-based dish made with lentils and spices. Indian Breakfast options like Masala Dosa and Adai are also flavorful and filling. Whether you prefer traditional or modern twists, Indian Breakfast has something to offer for every taste and preference.
Rice Powder (For Puttu)
Ingredients
- Unboiled Rice (White) – ½ kg
- Shredded Coconut – 1 cup
- Salt – to taste
How to Cook
Clean the unboiled rice (pachari) and soak them in water for three hours. After soaking, wash them and put them in a basket to drain the water. Then, crush them and grind them in a fine-mesh sieve and put them in a thick-bottomed vessel and fry them. Mix some salt in some water and add a little to the fried flour and knead it gently with your fingers and knead it into a rice ball without making any lumps. The flour prepared in this way can be used for putt after it is warmed.
1. Normal Rice Puttu – Indian Breakfast
Shredded some coconut on the stick of putt and put half a cup of flour on it. Shredded coconut again and put flour on top of it. Do this until the stick is full. While a pot of water is boiling on the stove, place the stick on top and cover it with a small lid. When the putt starts to steam, take out the stick and pierce the putt with a chapati skewer and place it in a bowl. Repeat this process until the flour is used up.
The powder for all the types of putts described below is prepared as mentioned above.
2. Shrimp Masala Puttu
Ingredients
- Rice Powder (Puttupodi) – 1 cup
- Small shrimp peeled – 200 grams
- Grated Coconut – ¼ cup
- Chilli Powder – 1¼ teaspoon
- Coriander Powder – 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric Powder – ¼ teaspoon
- Coriander powder – ¼ teaspoon
- Garlic Paste – ¼ teaspoon
- Garlic Paste (Grinded) – 1 teaspoon
- Large onion – 2 nos
- Green Chilies – 4-5 nos.
- Coconut Oil – 1 tablespoon
- Curry leaves – 2 nos
- Salt – to taste
How to Cook
Wash the shrimp, soak them in 1 to 5 tablespoons of water and salt, drain them and set aside. When the oil is hot, fry the onion and green chillies. When the onion is soft, remove the cooked shrimp. Add the ginger and salt to the paste and mix it with your fingers. Pour enough water in it and prepare the paste batter (puttu powder) and let it sit for half an hour. First, put 4 tablespoons of shrimp masala in the paste batter (puttu powder) and add half a cup of paste batter (puttu powder) on top of it. Fill the paste batter (puttu powder) like this. The mixture should be shrimp masala. After that, steam it like a normal paste. The paste (puttu powder) can be stuffed into banana leaves and eaten hot. This paste (puttu powder) does not require curry.
3. Tuna Fish Powdered Puttu
Ingredients
- Rice flour (Puttu powder) – 1 cup
- Mas powder – ½ cup (Mas is a type of dried fish/large variety of tuna fish)
- Chopped ginger – 1 cup
- Red chillies – 4 pieces
- Cumin seeds – 2 cloves
- Salt – to taste
How to Cook
Masala comes in large pieces. Wash and chop finely. Chop the masala and knead it like a normal puttu, add salt and water and knead it for 20 minutes. Grind the chillies and salt in a mixer. Crush the ginger and garlic and mix it with the puttu powder prepared in this way. First, put 2 tablespoons of the puttu powder in the pot and then add 1/2 cup of the flour. In this way, fill the pot with the flour and the puttu powder alternately. After that, put it in the pot and steam it. Eat the fish stew after it is cooked.
4. Beef Puttu
Ingredients
- Putt Powder – 1 cup
- Beef meat cut into pieces (sliced) – 200 grams
- Coriander leaves – 2 teaspoons
- Chilli leaves – 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric leaves – ½ teaspoon
- Black pepper leaves – 1 teaspoon
- Ginger leaves – ½ teaspoon
- Garam masala leaves – 1 teaspoon
- Ground coriander leaves – 1 teaspoon
- Ground ginger – 1 teaspoon
- Large onion – 1 piece
- Green chillies – 2-3 pieces, finely chopped
- Refined oil – 2 tablespoons
- Coriander leaves, curry leaves – As needed
- Salt – to taste
How to Cook
Knead the dough like a normal dough in a bowl with salt and water and let it rest for 20-25 minutes. Wash the beef and drain the water and fry it with 1 to 5 pieces of ginger, garlic and salt. When the oil is hot, add the onion and green chillies and fry them with the turmeric and ginger. Add the cooked meat, coriander and curry leaves and stir. First, put ¼ cup of flour in the pot, then add ¼ cup of the prepared meat masala and steam the pot. Place on a plate and serve hot. If desired, you can eat it with a side of meat or vegetables.
5. Peanut Sweet Puttu
Ingredients
- Boiled rice (Badhana/Kuruva) – 200 grams
- Roasted Peanuts – 50 grams (1 cup)
- Chopped Ginger – 1 cup
- Sugarcane (or Vellalam) – 50 grams
- Salt – a pinch
How to Cook
Stir some water in the rice and cook for half an hour. After that, put a little rice in a hot pan and stir it. Then the rice will cook well. When the rice starts to cook and turn red, put it on a plate. Add a little water and fry it. Put the hot water in a mixer and mix it with the paste. Add a pinch of salt and a little water to this mixture and prepare the paste. This will take more water. Therefore, after 15 minutes, add the water and mix it and mix it for 15 minutes. Put the peanuts in the mixer and mix it well, add the coriander and ginger and mix it. Mix the paste with the water and mix it well and put it in a cup of the paste. Add 2 tablespoons of coconut milk to it. Steam the remaining filling in this way. You can eat the hot fruit by cutting it into pieces.