Ottada

       Again a Kerala traditional recipe.It is my childhood favourit dish.

A breakfast or snack..During festival it may be the breakfast in many homes.Really ottada tastes heavenly...

Ingredients:

• Rice flour ( roasted ) : 1 cup
• Water : 1 cup(or as required)
• Grated coconut : 1/2 cup
• Sugar : 1/4 cup
• Plantain leaf : As required
• Oil
• Salt

Method:

• Boil water with salt.
• Add the boiling water  little by little  to the roasted rice flour and make a smooth dough by mixing it with a wooden spatula.
• The dough should be soft but should not be loose.
• Wait for 10 minutes and let it cool .
• Meanwhile mix both grated coconut and sugar and keep aside.
• Take a small plantain leaf and spread some oil.
• Take a lemon size dough and keep it in the center of the plantain leaf and spread it gently with your fingers.
• Now spread the fillings on it and fold the leaf carefully in to half.
• Heat a thawa or clay pot and place the folded ottada on it.
• Keep the stove in low flame. Cook both the sides till the leaf turn light brown
• Once the banana leaf starts detach from the ottada switch of the stove and take the ottada to serve.