| Recipe Name: Ada Pradhanam |
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| Category: Indian Regional |
Sub Category: Kerala |
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| Prep Time |
Cook Time |
Serves |
| 45 mins |
60 mins |
6 |
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Ingredients: |
| Short grain rice |
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250 g |
| Jaggery |
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750 g |
| Ghee |
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25 g |
| Coconut oil |
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3 tsp |
| Cardamom |
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10 g |
| Coconut |
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3 nos |
| Plantain leaves |
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8 pieces |
| Cashewnuts |
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50 g |
| Raisins |
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25 g |
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Method: |
- Soak short grain rice, in water for 30 mins. Later, strain it.
- When it becomes dry, grind it to a very fine powder.
- Place the plantain leaves directly on the gas flame till the colour changes.
- Add coconut oil, 100 gm of jaggery (diluted in water) to the finely powdered rice and mix well.
- Add sufficient water and knead the whole mixture very well.
- Pour the batter through your hands very thinly on the plantain leaves. Roll them and tie them up on both sides with the plantain threads/strings.
- Boil water in a big vessel.
- Place the tied plantain leaves filled with ada batter, in the boiling water for 30 mins.
- Remove from the hot water and strain it.
- Pour cold water over it and make it cool.
- Take out the adas from the leaves and place them in a strainer.
- Dissolve jaggery in a pan (preferably Urali).
- Cut the ada into fine pieces.
- When the jaggery solution thickens, add the ada pieces.
- Stir well and add ghee in between.
- Grate the coconuts and extract 2 cups of thick coconut milk, 4 cups of thin coconut milk and 8 cups of very thin coconut milk.
- When the payasam gets reduced, add 8 cups of very thin coconut milk and mix well. Allow it to thicken.
- When the ada gets cooked and the payasam gets reduced, add the 4 cups of thin coconut milk and mix well.
- When it too gets reduced and thickens, add the 2 cups of thick coconut milk.
- Add powdered cardamom and mix well.
- Heat it through. Do not boil
- Fry the cashews and raisins in ghee.
- Add it to the payasam and mix well.
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