Rava Puttu with mashed banana

Ingredients:

• [2 cups] Rava or Samolina
• [ 1/2 teaspoon] salt
• [1 cup] coconut grated
• [1/2 cup] sugar
• Banana
• Cardamon

Procedure:

Roast dry Rava in a pan.  Add salt.

Allow it to cool and keep aside.

Fill the water in puttu jar and let it boil Or Use idly vessel for puttu

Mix the grated coconut and sugar and cardamon keep it aside.

Take some water and sprinkle over rava occationally and rub so that it becomes like bread crumb.

It would take some time.  Every time you need to sprinkle only one tbl. spoon of water and rub it.

Otherwise it would have big lumps.

When it looks like bread crumb stop the process.

Now take the puttu mold and add coconut mixture then Rava which looks like bread crumbs, until

you finish the whole mold.

Close the lid and put over puttu jar.Cook 2-3 minutes after you see steam coming from the upper lid holes.

Remove from heat. Unmold it pushing it from back side.

If you wont have mold then keep in idly vessel and wait for 3 minutes

Eat with banana mashed and a tsp. of sugar.