Ela Ada / Steamed rice flour parcels with Sweet coconut filling !

If you ask me how many times I have devoured this , I have to say countless. For 4  years of my high school life  atleast few times a week I used to eat Elad ada . I am not going into all that story again as I have written all about that in my Bonda post before :) So probably if anyone ask me to judge an Ela ada, I can judge it better than anyone. Thats how much I love ela ada  and for that reason I have been trying to re create it at home several times, but to be honest I was never happy with the ones I used to make, but its only later that I realised the rice flour determines the quality of Ela ada, if you are making it readymade rice flour made from Basmathi rice or any easy cooking rice of that kind or Pachari  podi as we call it , it wont come out half as good as the ones you make with rice flour of Boiled rice / puzhugal ari. But getting that rice flour here is out of question but everytime when I come after a vacation I bring some homemade rice flour of boiled rice to make puttu /steamed rice  cake and the ela ada made with that flour will blow you away ! It will be the  softest elad ada ever and you will be making it over and over again  like me :)

Ingredients
Rice flour(from  boiled rice ) - 1 cup
Boiling water - 1 cup
Salt

or alternatively for making boiled rice flour 

Soak boiled rice for few hours, drain it completely and pat dry with a towel until completely dry. Grind it to flour .

For filling
Melted Jaggerry - 1/2 cup
Grated coconut - 3/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Banana leaves

Method

• Roast the rice flour for few minutes.
• Add boiling water and salt to it and make a smooth dough.
• Strain the impurities of melted jaggery and transfer it  into a saucepan.
• Add grated coconut to it. Cook the coconut in jaggery for 1-2 minutes.
• Add cardamom powder and turn off the flame.
• Meanwhile make equal sizes balls from the dough..
• Take the   banana leaves  and place a ball on the centre, flatten it with your wet palm  and spread it evenly.

                 

•  Place a tbs or two tbs of the filling in the middle and fold it into half.
• Steam the Ela adas for 8-10 mins.