Chakkaputtu / Gluten-free Jackfruit Crumble
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry roasted rice flour / puttu flour
- ½ cup grated coconut
- Water, as required
- salt as needed
- 3 cups of chopped jackfruit, deseeded
Instructions
- To a wide mixing bowl, add rice flour, grated coconut and salt. Mix with your fingers by applying a little pressure. Then add water a little at a time and knead.
- Continue adding water and mixing until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. To know whether the puttu mix is ready, take a small portion of the mixture in your palms and press gently. It will hold together in shape. And then when you press, it should crumble again.
- Keep the mixture covered for 5 minutes.
- Now add the chopped jackfruit into this mixture. Then mix with your hands or a spoon. Do not apply pressure. Do not squeeze the fruit. Mix gently just to cover the fruit with the flour mix.
- Heat water in a vessel. Place the steam pan on top of the vessel. Spread the mixture in the steam pan.
- Cover and let it steam for 10 minutes on medium flame.
- Remove from heat. Serve when medium hot.
Notes
- Since we are using dry roasted flour, the quantity will double in size when mixed with water.
- If you add more water, it will be either watery or seems like a dough. More water makes the puttu hard.
- If you add less water, the puttu will be dry,
- Usually most Stores will have branded puttu flour or you can use homemade rice flour as well,
- Puttu flour will be coarse usually unlike the all purpose flour and wheat flour.
- There are different varieties of jackfruit. For making Jackfruit crumble, we usually use sweet ripe varikka chakka variety ( the fruit with firm flesh).