Here is the recipe…
Add salt to rice flour and mix well. Add boiling water, gradually, to the rice powder and mix using a wooden spatula/spoon. Once the mixture cools down a bit, knead with your hands to make a soft and pliable dough…
Combine grated coconut and grated jaggery…
Grease the wilted leaves lightly with coconut oil or ghee. Place big lemon size balls of dough on the leaves and spread it thin using your finger tips. Make sure to dip your finger tips in water while doing this. Place some filling on one side of the rolled out dough and fold from the other side and press lightly…
Once the water starts boiling in the steamer,place the adas and cook on high flame for 8-10 mins. Open the steamer and see whether the ada is separated from the leaves, then it's cooked…
Recipe goes..
Ingredients
- 3/4 -1 cup Rice flour (I used roasted rice flour)
- 1 -1 1/4 cup Boiling water (refer notes)
- Salt
- 1 cup Grated coconut
- 1/3 cup Grated jaggery (refer notes)
- Banana leaves
Instructions
- Add salt to rice flour and mix well. Add boiling water, gradually, to the rice powder and mix using a wooden spatula/spoon. Once the mixture cools down a bit, knead with your hands to make a soft and pliable dough. Cover the dough with a wet kitchen towel to prevent it from drying out.
- Combine grated coconut and grated jaggery.
- Clean the banana leaves with a wet towel. Place the cleaned leaves over gas flame, flip the sides in between, to wilt the leaves slightly. This will prevent the leaves from breaking while folding. It's better to use leaves without the middle stem.
- Grease the wilted leaves lightly with coconut oil or ghee. Place big lemon size balls of dough on the leaves and spread it thin using your finger tips. Make sure to dip your finger tips in water while doing this.
- Place some filling on one side of the rolled out dough and fold from the other side and press lightly.
- Once the water starts boiling in the steamer, place the adas and cook on high flame for 8-10 mins. Open the steamer and see whether the ada is separated from the leaves, then it's cooked.
- You can also cook it on Dosa pan. heat the dosa pan on medium-high heat, once the tawa is really hot, reduce flame to lowest and place the ada on tawa. Cook both sides for 3-4 mins, each
Notes
You can also add crushed cardamom to the coconut jaggery mixture.
The qty of jaggery can be adjusted to suit your sweetness level.
If you are steaming, make sure not to crowd the steamer with adas. If you are making large qty, steam ada in batches. Also the cooking time for ada varies depending on the thickness of adas and how much adas you've placed in the steamer.
You can also use banana in the filling along with coconut and jaggery or use Chakka Varattiyathu (jackfruit preserve) as the filling.
The qty of jaggery can be adjusted to suit your sweetness level.
If you are steaming, make sure not to crowd the steamer with adas. If you are making large qty, steam ada in batches. Also the cooking time for ada varies depending on the thickness of adas and how much adas you've placed in the steamer.
You can also use banana in the filling along with coconut and jaggery or use Chakka Varattiyathu (jackfruit preserve) as the filling.
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What a delicious mouth watering snack. Thank you for remembering me.
Maria, hello from US. I check up on your site whenever I need a recipe. Thanks for your wonderful recipes. Ela ada is one of my favorites. Can I steam them in aluminium foil instead of ela? Any idea? Would love to hear from you. Tc
Hi Meera,
Good to know that you check out the recipes here :) Yes, you can steam them in al.foil. I do hope you get to try them soon and like it too..
Cheers
Maria
Ada is so tempting..Is there any subsitute for vazha ila? I’m confused whether aluminum foil is safe to use..
Hi Neeraja,
Thanks :) I’m not sure about any substitutes other than al.foil. I’ve seen some people using it successfully.
Cheers
Maria
Hi Maria, tried this recipe and my hubby loved it… Great post!!!
Thanks Padma :) Happy to know that this recipe worked out well for you.
Cheers
Maria
i love this one…. i too have only eaten this home made, except for this one time from this restaurant at the beginning of market road(near menaka junction,ekm). It was truly yummy.. you should try that one the next time u r thr.
Hi Ida,
Thanks for recommending the place, will check it out :)
What a fun post to read Maria! The conversation with your parents really cracked me up!!
Thanks Simi :)