Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, vazhayila ada / rice parcel in banana leaf. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Elayappam/ilayada is a Traditional Kerala delicacy. It is made of coconut and sugar/jaggery which is layered inside the rice paste in a banana leaf and. Here is a Simple Recipe for ELA ADA , if you have any doubts or suggestion regarding this recipe please COMMENT below i will reply to your comments. Ada or Ela Ada, is a Traditional Kerala (South India) delicacy.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vazhayila ada / rice parcel in banana leaf using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make VAZHAYILA ADA / Rice Parcel in Banana leaf:
- Take 2 cup Rice Flour (roasted)
- Take 1/4 tsp Salt
- Take 1 1/2 cup Hot Water approx
- Get 1 tbsp oil (optional)
- Make ready as needed Banana leaves
- Make ready For Filling:
- Get 1 cup Coconut grated
- Take 1/2 cup Jaggery grated
- Take 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
The filing can be made with coconut jaggery puran or we can use jackfruit jaggery puran. In this recipe I have used. Steamed rice packets with sweet filling. We always prepare it whenever there is leftover banana leaves at home after a sadhya.
Steps to make VAZHAYILA ADA / Rice Parcel in Banana leaf:
- Mix the cardamom, jaggery with coconut and keep aside.
- Boil water and add salt. Remove from the flame and then in parts add the rice flour and continuously keep folding it together with a spoon. Once the entire flour has been folded in, cover it with a lid and let it rest and cool down. Then made it smooth dough as Chappathi. Adding hot water is to make the dough soft and smooth.
- Take a big banana leaf, wash it and cut into rectangles shape of approx 8 to 10 inches each pieces.
- Mix the dough again and make big lemon size balls. Place the rice balls on the banana leaf and with wet hands gently flatten it using your finger tips to form a flat round even shape. Keep wetting your hands so that the round shape will be smooth. Flatten it using your finger tips to form a thin even layer of dough.
- Spoon in generous amount of filling over one half of the pressed dough. It is optional to make thin appam or a little thicker appam, but make sure you are generous with the filling that you place inside.
- Fold the leaf into half and gently press the edges to seal the filling inside together. Allow the steamer to boil and place in all the folded banana leaves in the steamer / idly pot on medium flame. This will take 12 to 15 minutes to cook. You can make it in one batch or two batches depending on the steamer size.
- Let the "Vazhayila Ada" cool and then it is ready to be served.
Steamed rice packets with sweet filling. We always prepare it whenever there is leftover banana leaves at home after a sadhya. Ela ada is favourite snack for everyone at our home that we make it very often. There are many variations to it and method of cooking differs slightly across different regions of Kerala. Ela ada is a traditional Kerala sweet/snack which is made with rice flour/raw rice and coconut-jaggery filling.
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