Ela Ada /Steamed Rice Parcel
Ela Ada /Steamed Rice Parcel

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, ela ada /steamed rice parcel. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ada or Ela Ada, is a Traditional Kerala (South India) delicacy. It is made of coconut and brown sugar (jaggery), which is layered inside the rice paste in banana leaf and steamed in a steamer or idly mould vessel. It is served as evening snack or as part of breakfast.

Ela Ada /Steamed Rice Parcel is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Ela Ada /Steamed Rice Parcel is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ela ada /steamed rice parcel using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ela Ada /Steamed Rice Parcel:
  1. Get 2 Cups Rice Flour
  2. Get 1 Cup Jaggery grated
  3. Take 2 Cups Coconutgrated
  4. Prepare water hot
  5. Get 1/2 Teaspoon cardamom powder
  6. Take 2 Teaspoons ghee
  7. Prepare Banana leaves

Allow this to cool slightly and knead well to form a soft dough. Take a lemon sized portion of the prepared dough and place it onto a piece of banana leaf and flatten it using your finger tips to form a. Steamed rice packets with sweet filling. We always prepare it whenever there is leftover banana leaves at home after a sadhya.

Steps to make Ela Ada /Steamed Rice Parcel:
  1. Slightly roast the rice flour.Let it cool. Add salt to the flour and combine well. Now add hot water and 1/2 tsp ghee to this to make a very smooth soft dough.Set aside
  2. Take a heavy bottomed pan, add the grated fresh coconut and grated jaggery. Allow the jaggery to melt and cook.When the mixture is thick, add one teaspoon of ghee and cardamom powder and mix well. Turn off the stove.
  3. Clean banana leaf. Smoke this leaf on flame for a few seconds so that it becomes easy to fold.
  4. Make the rice dough to small balls.Take a piece of Square shaped banana leaf (if not cut it), keep a ball of rice flour dough at the center. Dip your finger in a bowl of water and flatten the dough on the banana leaf.
  5. Place a tablespoon of jaggery coconut mixture on it and fold the leaf to seal the edges. Repeat the same for rest of the dough.Steam this in an idli steamer or a cooker without weight for 10 – 15 minutes.

Ela ada is favourite snack for everyone It can also be made with brown rice or wheat flour instead of rice flour. Some even use health mix powder/sathumaavu to make ela ada. To make ela ada, steamed rice pancake, first make the jaggery filling. Combine the jaggery and ¼ cup of water in a broad non-stick, mix well and cook on a Ela means leaf, and this sweet rice pancake is named so because elayappam gets a special aroma and flavour by being steamed in banana leaves. Ela Ada, a traditional Kerala delicacy, is rice-flour parcels, encased in a dough made of rice flour, with sweet fillings, steamed in banana leaf and served as an evening snack or as part of breakfast.

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