Erachi puttu (Steamed rice flour cake with minced meat)

Ingredients for meat mixture

1.Minced meat - 2 cup
2.Onion minced - 2 no
3.Ginger paste - 1 tsp
4.Garlic paste - 1 tsp
5.Green chillies minced - 4 no
6.Red chilli powder -1 tsp
7.Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
8.Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
9.Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
10.Fennel seeds/Perum jeerakam crushed - 1/4 tsp
11.Curry leaves
12.Salt


Ingredients for puttu

1. Roasted Rice flour - 2 cup
2.Salt
3.Grated coconut - 1 cup
4.Water


Preparation of the flour for puttu

1.Mix the rice flour with salt and 1/4 cup grated coconut.Sprinkle the water and mix the flour with your hands.When you mix it if any lumps were formed break it.Mix it well to make the powder wet and smooth.Then keep it aside.

Preparation of meat

1.Heat the oil in a pan and add the fennel seeds ,curry leaves ,ginger,garlic paste ,green chillies to it.Saute it well then add the minced onions and salt to it.Saute it till the onions become light brown in color.

2.Then to this add red chilli powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder,garam masala powder.Mix it well when its raw smell goes add the minced meat to it .And mix the meat well with the masala.And then cook it in low flame .

You can also add cooked meat to it .

Preparation of making erachi puttu

1.For making the puttu fist put some grated coconut in the puttu maker then take one spoonfull of meat masala and then put one hand full of rice flour mixture.Above this palce coconut then again meat masala then rice flour.

2.Steam this in puttumaker till steam comes out from it.