Ela ada / Ilayada /Steamed rice cake in banana leaf wrap

Ela adsa is a traditional Kerala dish.It is made of rice flour coconut and jaggery.Rice flour dough in banana leaf  stuffed with coconut jaggery mixture!It can be considered as a a snack or break fast.

Ingredients:

• Rice flour :  1 cup
• Hot water : As required
• Banana leaf : 5 medium sized pieces
• Salt

For stuffing :

• Grated coconut : 1 cup
• Grated jaggery : 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder : 1/4 tspn
• Ghee / oil : to grease the leaf

Method:

• Clean the banana leaf and grease each leaf with oil /ghee.
• Mix jaggery coconut and cardamom powder well.

• Make a dough with ricce flour salt and hot water.It should be like chapathi dough.Keep aside

• Now take a lemon sized ball of rice dough and keep it in the center of leaf and spread it with your hand.

• Spread the jaggery mixture on it and fold the leaf in half.

• Repeat the same for all the adas
• Place the ada in a steamer or idly pot
• Keeep the stove in simmer mode for 7 to 10 minute.
• Open the steamer and check..Yummy ela ada isready to serve with hot tea!

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