Recipe: Tasty Ela ada / rice steam cake with coconut jaggery filling

Ela ada / rice steam cake with coconut jaggery filling. Flatten the Ela Ada rice dough with wet fingers to get a nice and even flattened dough. Fill the Ela Ada dough with a teaspoon of coconut jaggery mixture on one side of the flattened dough and fold from the other side and press lightly. Ela Ada is one of Keralites favorite breakfast/evening snacks made out of rice flour, coconut and jaggery.

The leaf used here is banana leaf. It has to be slightly wilted on low flame to remove the stiffness. Ela Ada / Valsan (Steamed Rice Pancakes With Coconut & Jaggery Filling) Skip to content. You can cook Ela ada / rice steam cake with coconut jaggery filling using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ela ada / rice steam cake with coconut jaggery filling

1. It's 1 cup of rice flour.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of water.
3. Prepare to taste of Salt.
4. You need 2 tsp of Ghee.
5. Prepare 1 cup of Grated cocnut.
6. It's 1/2 cup of Jaggery.
7. You need 3 pods of cardmom crushed.
8. You need 8 of Banana leaves cut pieces.

Mix and Knead Rice flour with water. For filling mix coconut with Jaggery and cumin. Ela Ada, is a Traditional Kerala delicacy. It is made of fresh grated coconut and jaggery, which is layered inside a dough made of the rice flour and steamed in a Vatta(Macaranga peltata) leaf.

Ela ada / rice steam cake with coconut jaggery filling instructions

1. In a vessel put the water to boil and once it starts boiling start putting the rice flour slowly giving it a good stir. Make sure that no lumps are formed add the ghee and switch off the flame. Keep it covered for 3 minutes..
2. Roll the dough when it is still hot and ensure it is of smooth consistency and no lumps are there.
3. Meanwhile melt the jaggery in a pan add the Grated coconut and cardmom powder and let it thicken a bit.
4. Wet your palm and press the dough to the banana leaf forming a big oval Shape and put the filling in the middle.
5. Close the leaf and using an idli steamer steam it for 10 - 15min until done.
6. Cut into pieces as per your liking.

My kids love ada so yesterday I made ada as an after school surprise. It's been quite sometime since I baked something though demands for a cookie or a cake is arising on and off. Coming back to ada, it is healthy as it is of fine rice powder, jaggery, and coconut. The best thing about Ada is there is no oil in it. Ela Ada is a traditional sweet delicacy from Kerala, made by steaming stuffed rice flour pancakes wrapped in a banana leaf.