
For Puttu:
1) Puttu Podi (White Puttu Flour or Chemba Puttu Flour) – 1 cup
2) Luke Warm Water – 2 cups or As needed.
3) Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup
4) Salt
For Erachi (Meat):
1) Beef – 1/2 lb , cubed
2) Yellow Onion – 1 Big , halved and thinly sliced
3) Green Chilly – 4 , slitted
4) Ginger – 1 tsp, finely chopped
5) Meat Masala – 3 tsp ( If you don’t have meat masala mix 1/2 tsp Garam Masala, 1/2 tsp red chilly powder and 1/4 tsp turmeric powder and use this)
6) Curry Leaves – 3 sprigs
7) Coconut Oil – 2 tbsp
Wet Masala for beef:
1) Yellow Onion – 1 small , halved and thinly sliced
2) Green chilly – 2 crushed
3) Ginger- 1/2 tsp , crushed
Marinate cubed beef with meat masala for at least an hour.
Cook marinated beef till it is 3/4 th done.
When it is 3/4th cooked, add wet masala and cook covered till gravy thicken and no water is left.
Heat some oil and fry sliced yellow onion till it is transparent.
Add slitted green chilly , chopped ginger and curry leaves and fry again.
Transfer cooked beef to this and fry till all water is evaporated and you get a wet thick gravy and beef is coated well with gravy. Don’t make this too dry.
Cooking Method for Erachi Puttu:
Add enough salt to luke warm water.
Pour a small portion of warm water to puttu podi and mix well with hand. Continue this process till puttu podi is really wet without any big lumps. If you add more than enough water, lumps will start forming. If it starts lumping or get watery add more puttu podi to adjust.
Set aside the wet puttu podi covered for 1/2 an hour.
Take a puttu maker , add 1/2 tsp of grated coconut to the bottom and add a small portion of wet puttu podi, and then add a small portion of the cooked beef. Continue this process until it reaches the top of puttu maker.
Top off with 1/2 tsp of grated coconut.
Steam and make delicious Erachi puttu.


