ILAYADA RECIPE

For Ada:
Rice flour - 1 cup
salt - to taste
butter - 1 tbsp

For Filling:
Jackfruit Preserve (chakkavarattiyathu) - ½ cups
Sheredded coconut

Boil 2 cups of water. Mix rice flour with salt and butter and then add enough hot water to make a soft dough similar to idiappam dough. Heat Jaggery and coconut in a pan and mix them well. Take small balls (lemon size) from the dough and spread it on banana leaf and keep a
tablespoon full of jackfruit-coconut mix in the center and fold and press the edges to
seal. Steam the ada's in a vegetable steamer or idli cooker. Serve hot.