Ingredients:
Ghee
1 cup ripe jackfruit
1 cup rice flour
3/4th cup jaggery
½ cup grated coconut
1 tsp cardamom powder
1/4th tsp dry ginger powder
1/4th tsp salt
8-9 bay leaves
Method:
- Clean the bay leaves under running water and wipe them dry.
- Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed pan. De-seed the peeled jackfruit and grind in a mixer jar.
- Add the crushed jackfruit to the ghee and stir well and let it cook for about 5 minutes.
- Melt the jaggery in hot water and strain it.
- Add it to the jackfruit mixture and mix well.
- Roast rice flour in another pan and add the roasted flour to the jackfruit and jaggery mixture. Mix well and cook on a low flame until the mixture becomes a dough-like consistency leaving the sides of the pan for a minute and put off the flame. Cover it for 10 minutes until warm.
- Make small cones of the mixture and wrap them in bay leaves forming a cone and cover them with one end of the bay leaf leaves like small small cones fixing one end of the cone with a toothpick.
- Heat the idly steamer and steam the packets for about 20 minutes and check with a toothpick. It should come out dry.
- Serve warm.
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