MANGALOREAN PUNDI RECIPE

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BY SUSHEELA POOJARI

Pundi or Pundi Gatti, usually a round shaped soft rice dumpling belonging to Mangalorean cuisine, native to Tulu Nadu region of India, prepared by soaking, grinding, tempering, cooking and finally steaming the rice. Pundi Gatti is popularly known as Pundi in Udupi and Mangalore towns of Karnataka state. Like most of the Mangalorean breakfast recipes it is usually served with coconut chutney.

It’s also made with jaggery and grated coconut filling, known as Chiipe Pundi in Tulu.

The traditional method involved is soaking rice and then grinding it coarsely followed by steaming it. But this method is time consuming. So as a cut short method, people use ready idli rava or rice flour to prepare these soft rice dumplings.

INGREDIENTS

• 1cup ildi rava / rice rava
• ½ cup freshly grated coconut
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp urad dal
• 2 red chilli broken
• few curry leaves
• salt to taste
• 2 ½ or 3 cup boiling water

METHOD

Heat oil and splutter mustard seeds +  urad dal +  red chilli + curry leaves.

Add  idli rava , stir and roast on medium flame.

Roast for 5 minutes or until the rava turns aromatic. [ colour should not change ]

Add coconut and give a nice mix.

Add salt .

Add hot boiling water .

Stir continuously and cook on medium flame .

See that  there are no lumps forming.

Stir and cook till the mixture thickens without any lumps and leaves the pan forming a lump  .

Off the flame and cool it .

Once you are able to handle the hot mixture then , wet your hands and start making balls.

Create a impression on the top by pressing gently with your thumb.

Place the prepared pundi on a greased plate .

Steam for 15 minutes, or until the pundi are cooked completely.

Serve pundi / undi with any south indian accompaniment .

They taste great when hot undis are served with lots of oil on top .

NOTE

We can add add ginger / pepper corns / methi seeds / cashew / peanut / chana dal etc ingredients of your choice in the tempering .

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