Ingredients for Idi Ada:
1. Coriander seeds – 2 big spoons
Red chillies – 2
Kashmiri chilli – 2
Fennel seeds – 1.5 small spoons
Cumin seeds – ¾ small spoon
Coconut grated – 2 big spoons
Cinnamon – 2 pieces
Cloves – 4
2. Meat chopped fine – 250 gm
3. Garlic paste – 2 small spoons
Ginger paste – 1 small spoon
Salt – As required
4. Water – ½ cup
5. Coconut oil – 2 big spoons
6. Onions – 4, chopped fine
Green chillies – 2, chopped
7. Garam masala powder – ½ small spoon
Coriander leaves – 1 big spoon
Salt – As required
8. Water – 1.5 cups
Salt – As required
9. Pathiri powder – 1 cup
10. Banana leaf pieces – As required
How to prepare Idi Ada?
1. Dry fry ingredients no: 1 till it turns red.
2. Make a fine powder once the contents cool.
3. Marinate meat using the above masala powder, salt and ginger-garlic paste.
4. Allow marinated meat to rest for 15 minutes.
5. Add sufficient water and cook the meat. Make it dry.
6. Heat oil and saute onions and chopped green chillies.
7. Keep sauting till onions turn soft.
8. Add ingredients no: 7, mix well and take off the flame. This meat mixture is used as filling.
9. Boil water, adding salt and add flour little by little. Mix it well.
10. Knead the dough using greased hands to make it soft.
11. Grease banana leaf bits and squeeze the dough onto them in round shapes using an idiyappam squeezer.
12. While doing so, place a little filling at the centre, and fold the leaf to get an ada shape.
13. Continue the process for the remaining dough and filling.
14. Steam cook adas using a steamer.
15. Allow to cool adas before you serve. If you serve hot, it may stick to your hands.
Archive: Vanitha Magazine May 15-31, 2019
Read a few more steamed Ada recipes here. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.
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