Ilayappam / Ila Ada

Ilayappam  /  Ila  Ada is a tasty sweet snack wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in steam .

INGREDIENTS:

• Rice Flour -2 cup
• Grated Fresh Coconut -  1  cup
• Jaggery - ½  cup
• Ghee -1 tsp
• Salt - a pinch
• Boiled water - required to make dough
• Plantain Leaves

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Roast the rice flour lightly. 
• Add Boiled Water and Salt to rice flour and make a soft dough like chappathi dough.  
• Allow to cool the dough. 
• Grease banana leaves with little ghee.  
• Add little water to jaggery  and boil make a thick syrup. 
• Add the grated coconut to it and cook for 2  minutes and let it cool.
• Make the dough into small balls.
• Flatten the dough on a rectangular banana leaf  as thin as possible using finger tips (use little water).
• Put a spoonful of coconut mixture on it and spread it in one half of the ada.
• Fold the banana leaf in half and fold the the edges to seal. 
• Continue the same process with rest of the dough. 
• Steam the ada in a steamer till cooked. 
• Remove the banana leaves when it cools completely.