Gothambu / Wheat Ottada

Wheat Ottada can be served during breakfast or at snack time.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat flour  - 2 cups
• Grated coconut - 1cup 
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Salt to taste
• Water  - As required
• Banana Leaves

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix the Grated Coconut and sugar for filling.
• Add Water and Salt to Wheat flour and make a dough.
• Make the dough into small balls.
• Flatten the dough on a rectangular banana leaf using finger tips and little water. 
• Put a some coconut mix and spread it in one half of the ada.
• Fold the banana leaf in half. 
• Heat a Pan / Thava / Chatti.
• Put each ada in it and sprinkle some water.
• Cover it with a pan and cook in medium heat.
• Roast the ottada on both sides till the banana leaf turns brown and the ada detaches from the leaf.

Ottada

Ottada can be served during breakfast or at snack time. Ottada is a traditional food, ada wrapped in banana leaf roasted in 'cheena chatti'. The smell of roasted banana leaf takes me back to my childhood days.

INGREDIENTS:

• Roasted rice flour  - 2 cups
• Grated coconut - 1cup 
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Salt to taste
• Water  - As required to make dough
• Banana Leaves

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix the Grated Coconut and sugar for filling.
• Add Water and Salt to rice flour and make a dough like chappathi dough.
• Make the dough into small balls.
• Flatten the dough on a rectangular banana leaf using finger tips and little water. 
• Put a some coconut mix and spread it in one half of the ada.
• Fold the banana leaf in half. 
• Heat a Pan / Thava / Chatti.
• Put each ada in it and sprinkle some water.
• Cover it with a pan and cook in medium heat.
• Roast the ottada on both sides till the banana leaf turns brown and the ada detaches from the leaf.