Ila Ada is a traditional sweet associated with Kerala cuisine. In this recipe, a mixture of rice, jaggery and scraped coconut is folded inside plantain leaves and steamed. As it’s steamed without oil, it’s a healthy snack. In Aval Ada, the filling is healthy rice flakes (aval). Also read: Some untold stories of Poovada made during the auspicious occasion of Thiruvonam

Aval Ada recipe

Ingredients for Aval Ada:

  1. Aval (Rice flakes) – 250 gm
  2. Coconut – 2, scraped
  3. Sugar – 1.5 cups
    Ghee – 1 big spoon
    Cardamom powder – 1 small spoon
  4. Rice flour slightly fried – ½ kg
  5. Boiled water – As required
    Salt – A pinch
  6. Plantain leaf pieces – As required

How to prepare Aval Ada?

  1. Mix scraped coconut and aval together, and keep this mixture aside for half an hour.
  2. After half an hour, add sugar, ghee and cardamom powder to this mixture. Use your hands to mix the ingredients well. It’s the filling used for Aval Ada.
  3. Add salt and water to the rice flour and mix well. Water content should be enough to make small balls out of it.
  4. Make small balls and keep aside.
  5. Dip plantain leaf pieces in boiling water, and take them out when they change colour slightly.
  6. Using a cotton cloth, remove all moisture from the leaves, and spread each ball on a leaf piece. Balls should be spread very thin on leaf bits.
  7. Place a little aval mixture on top and fold the leaf. Repeat the process for every rice ball.
  8. Steam cook them to get delicious aval ada. Before you place each one in the steam cooker, fold both edges and the upper side of each banana fold too.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine April 1-14, 2017

Read a few more rice flakes recipes. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.

 

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