Ada pradhaman / cooked rice flakes with coconut milk & jaggery

Name: Ada pradhaman / cooked rice flakes with coconut milk & jaggery
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: En
Ingredients: Rice flour /Unakkalari podi : 1 cup; Water : 1/4 cup (may be less or more depending on the rice flour); Coconut Oil : 2 tablepsoons; Salt a pinch; Banana leaves /Vazhayila : Fresh or frozen for spreading the dough; Jaggery /Sharkkara : 400 grms /1 cup (melted & filtered); Thin Coconut milk -3rd extract /Monnampal : 2 cups; Semi Thick Coconut milk - 2nd extract /Randaampal : 1 cup; Thick Coconut milk - 1st extract /Thanipaal : 1/2 cup; Ghee /Ney : 2 tablepsoons; Cashew nuts /Kasuvandi parippu : few; Coconut pieces /Thengakothu : few (cut in to small pieces); Dried ginger powder /Chuku podi : 1/2 tablepsoon; Cardamom powder /Elaka podi : 1/4 tablespoon

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Main Dish

Very Easy

40 min

Preparation

Preparation15 min

Cook time25 min

In a bowl,add the rice flour using water and coconut oil make a soft dough and cover it.
Clean and wipe the plantain leaf pieces and spread the oil on the back side of the leaves.
Make small balls out of the rice flour dough and spread it as thin as possible.
Then start drawing cris cross lines with help of toothpick like grill marks,only smaller cubes.
In wide & big pan,add water and allow it to boil, Once it comes to a rolling boil, drop the banana leaves with ada into it and steam the flour batter for 2-3 minutes or till it becomes transparent.
Remove from the pan and put it in another container of warm water.
Strain it and rinse 3-5 times with cool water thoroughly to remove all the excess stickiness of oil out of it.
Boil 1/2 cup of water and add jaggery and keep on stirring till it is fully melted (almost the consistency of honey), strain it and keep aside.
Fry separately the coconut & cashews in 1 tbsp of ghee and keep it aside.
Heat 1 tbsp of ghee in a thick bottomed flat utensil or Uruli (nonstick woks can also be substitute.
Add the ada piece and fry for few seconds, add melted jaggery and stir continuously and cook until the mixture becomes thick and start separating from the sides of the pan.
Add the 3rd thin milk /monnampal mix well and cook till it becomes thick.
Add the 2nd semi thick milk/randaampal and stir well until it become thick again.
Add the 1st thick milk/thanipaal and stir well. Do not boil.
Remove from the fire and add the fried cashew nuts and coconut.
Add the cardamom powder and dry ginger powder and cover the pan with a tight lid for few minutes and mix well.
Yummy Ada Pradhaman is ready to serve. Serve hot or cold.