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Coorgi Steamed Paputtu Recipe

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Following the desire to try a dessert for breakfast different than usual, I came across the Paputtu and I immediately decided to try the cake with rice flour and coconut. The cake in question is tasty and fragrant, soft and perfect as a base to enrich or stuffing to taste. The Paputtu rice cake is a cake prepared a bit all over Coorg or Kodagu in Karnataka with different variations from region to region. Paputtu, literally sticky rice with coconut, and the end result from the aesthetic point of view is very similar to homegrown rice pudding. The version of the rice cake proposed here is a traditional recipe, which was usually prepared for Dasara. Also for this rice cake, which is very simple but tasty, there are variants that provide for the addition of coconut and cardamom. The rice cake is prepared by boiling rice in milk until completely cooked and then combining sugar and dill leaves. You can add eggs and the mixture is baked in the oven and sprinkled with sugar before being serv...