{"id":2341,"date":"2015-03-29T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:27:54","slug":"ela-ada-valsan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/ela-ada-valsan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat Ela Ada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/ela-ada-valsan\/ela-ada\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2342\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ela-Ada.jpg\" alt=\"Ela Ada\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ela-Ada.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ela-Ada-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ela-Ada-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ela Ada (valsan), a typical Kerala sweet recipe, traditionally made of rice floor. Grated coconut mixed with jiggery (brown sugar) is filled inside the rise dough, which is layered on a banana leaf. It is then steam cooked in an idly maker or steamer. In this preparation here I used wheat flour instead of rice flour, but the rest of the steps remain same.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For 7 Adas<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wheat flour\u00a0 \u00a0: 2 cups<\/li>\n<li>Water\u00a0 : 1 \u00bc cup<\/li>\n<li>Salt a pinch<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For filling:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Grated coconut\u00a0 : 2 cup<\/li>\n<li>Aval (rice flakes ) : \u00a0\u00bc \u00a0cup<\/li>\n<li>Jaggery : \u00a01 cup<\/li>\n<li>Cardamom powder : \u00bc T-sp<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Banana leaves<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Method:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a bowl add the wheat flour, salt and add little water at a time and make a soft dough (little looser than chapati dough).<\/li>\n<li>In another bowl, add the aval and sprinkle some water and mix it.<\/li>\n<li>Then add the jaggery , coconut and cardamom powder and mix it.<\/li>\n<li>Wash the banana leaves and wipe it with a kitchen towel.<\/li>\n<li>Divide the dough according to the size of the banana leaves.<br \/>\n( I got frozen banana leaves, so most of the leaves are broken, I had to cut it into 7 different sized balls).<\/li>\n<li>In the center of the leaf place the dough and\u00a0flatten it with fingers, dip the hands in between for making flattening easy avoiding the dough sticking the fingers.<\/li>\n<li>Then layer the filling (see the pic) and fold the leaf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/ela-ada-valsan\/valsan-steps\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2352\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2352\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps.png\" alt=\"Valsan-Steps\" width=\"480\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps.png 480w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps-136x150.png 136w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a steamer add enough water and allow it to boil.<\/li>\n<li>Once it&#8217;s boiled well, place the adas and wait for cooking it . Typically takes 15-20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Can see the color of the leaves changed .<\/li>\n<li>Switch off the stove and wait for the steam to settle, before taking the adas out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/ela-ada-valsan\/valsan-steps2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2354\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps2.png\" alt=\"Valsan-Steps2\" width=\"336\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps2.png 336w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps2-130x150.png 130w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Valsan-Steps2-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ela Ada (valsan), a typical Kerala sweet recipe, traditionally made of rice floor. Grated coconut mixed with jiggery (brown sugar) is filled inside the rise dough, which is layered on a banana leaf. It is then steam cooked in an idly maker or steamer. In this preparation here I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breakfast-specials","category-festival-dishes","category-kerala-specials","category-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}