Puttu

Cylindrical steamed rice and coconut cake — coarsely ground rice flour layered alternately with fresh grated coconut inside a cylindrical puttu kutti (steamer mould) and cooked with steam until firm and crumbly. Served warm, the cylinder pushed out onto a plate and broken apart. Eaten at breakfast with banana and jaggery, or with kadala curry (black chickpea) and coconut milk. The definitive breakfast staple of Coorg, Kerala, and coastal South India.