Iddiyapam/kolakattai/puttu

Iddiyapam stems from south india. It is basically rice noodles eaten with cocunut milk and sugar. It can also be eaten with vegetable stew or aviyal or vegetable/chicken kurma.

Preparation of the flour:

The red raw rice is all that we need.

1. Soak the rice in water for one hour
2. Use the strainer to drain out the water
3. Fry the rice in an empty dry pan in low flame until the water in the rice dries out.
4. Grind the rice using mixie and use the strainer to get the fine composition of the flour.

Preparation of Iddiyapam:

1. Take the prepared flour and add boiling hot water (you could boil the water in the stove or in microwave) and make a dough like chapatti dough adding little salt.
2. Fill this dough in the iddiyapam maker and rotate the handle of maker in clock wise direction smoothly.
3. We will have the noodles coming out of the maker. Make two or three circular rounds of the noodle on to the iddi plates.
4. Steam cook like iddlis
5. Serve hot with cocunut milk and sugar or kurma

Preparation of Kolukkatai:

Use the prepared flour and make a dough like for iddiyapam and just make shapes like you want and steam cook it in iddli plates.

Preparation of Puttu:

Add grated cocunut and sugar to the prepared flour and add very little water just enough to hold the flour in hand. Stuff this mixture into the iddli plates and steam cook.