{"id":4114,"date":"2018-11-05T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:29:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:29:50","slug":"ela-ada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/ela-ada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ela Ada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/ela-ada\/ela-ada-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4115\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ela-Ada.jpg\" alt=\"Ela Ada\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ela-Ada.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ela-Ada-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ela-Ada-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ela Ada (Valsan )<\/strong><\/em>, is a Traditional Kerala (South Indian) snack dish served on of Hindu festival occasions like Diwali &amp; Karthika. It is made of rice dough, filled with a sweet mix of coconut and jaggery (brown sugar), flattened inside the leaf.\u00a0It is then steam\u00a0cooked. In this preparation, I used brown rice flour but normal white rice flour may be used instead!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rice flour\u00a0 \u00a0: 2 cups<\/li>\n<li>Hot Water : 3\u00a0cups (adjust)<\/li>\n<li>Grated Coconut : 4 cups<\/li>\n<li>Jaggery :\u00a0 1.5\u00a0 cup (adjust)<\/li>\n<li>Cardamom powder : \u00bc T-sp<\/li>\n<li>Salt a pinch<\/li>\n<li>Banana Leaves<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a bowl add the rice flour, salt and add a little water at a time and make a soft dough (little looser than chapati dough).<\/li>\n<li>In a separate bowl, add the powdered\u00a0jaggery , 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.<\/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<li>In a steamer add enough water and allow it to boil.<\/li>\n<li>Once it\u2019s boiled well, place the adas and wait for cooking it . Typically takes 15-20 minutes. 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\/elaada\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4119\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ElaADA.jpg\" alt=\"ElaADA\" width=\"753\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ElaADA.jpg 753w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ElaADA-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ElaADA-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ela Ada (Valsan ), is a Traditional Kerala (South Indian) snack dish served on of Hindu festival occasions like Diwali &amp; Karthika. It is made of rice dough, filled with a sweet mix of coconut and jaggery (brown sugar), flattened inside the leaf.\u00a0It is then steam\u00a0cooked. In this preparation, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22,3,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desserts","category-festival-dishes","category-kerala-specials","category-south-indian","category-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","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=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}