Friday, October 23, 2009

Recipe Paal Adai Pradaman


1 cup adai pieces (available ready made)
3 litres of full cream milk
3 cups of sugar

Heat milk in a heavy bottomed vessel. Wash adai pieces thoroughly in warmwater and add to boiling milk. Cook on a medium flame stirring once in a while till adai pieces become very soft. Add sugar and cook for another 15 minutes. Serve hot

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Recipe Elai Adai - Jack fruit filling


1 cup rice (cleaned and soaked for 4 hours)
1 cup ukda chawal (cleaned and soaked for 4 hours)
1 cup jack fruit segments
2 cups jaggery (Powdered)
2 coconuts (grated)
2 tbsp ghee
20 fesh banana leaves (cut into 16 cms squares)
A large pinch of salt

Slice jack-furit segements into small pieces. Cook jack fruit pieces, jaggery grated coconut and ghee in a heavy bottomed pan on a low flame stirring continuously till mixture is thick. Grind rice into a very fine paste adding enough water to make a thick batter. Take a banana leave and pur a ladleful of batter. Spread it a little and put 1 spoon of jack fruit mixture. Fold twice (lengthwise ) and the endges (breadthwise) Smilarly make all Adais. Steam till done and serve