Nadan Elayada Recipe

                               

Ingredients :-

Rice flour : -2 cups

Freshly grated coconut :-  2 cups

Banana :-2

Sugar :- as required

Banana leaf :- as required

Method   for   making   Elayada :-

                              

1.  Peel the bananas and slice into very small pieces and mix well with grated coconut and sugar and put aside
2. Roast the rice flour slightly and allow it to cool
3. Mix the rice flour with salt and ½ cup of water
4. Combine well and make it to a smooth dough
5. Take a little and make it to a ball and press it on the banana leaf into a round shape as thin as possible
6. Place the coconut banana mixture on it and gently fold the banana leaf
7. Repeat the same process till the dough and coconut mixture are over
8. Place it in the pot and steam it for 10 to 15 minutes
9. Remove from the fire and transfer the ellayadas into a serving plate

                                                            
                                      

    

                  

                 Serve  the  Sweet   Elayada

Banana Halwa (Nentrapazham Halwa) Recipe

        

 

                                       

           

Ingredients :-

Banana : -1kg

Sugar :-  700 gm

Almond(Badam) :- 30gm

Cashewnut :- 30gm

Kishmish :-30gm

Ghee :-50gm

Method   for   making  Banana Halwa  :-

1.  Peel the bananas and slice into 1 or 2 inches roundly
2. Steam the banana and mash it well and put aside
3. Mix the kishmish ,almond and cashewnuts and grind well and put aside
4. Heat water in a pan and add sugar. Stir it well till it turns into a syrup form
5. Then add the mashed  banana  into the sugar syrup and combine well
6. Heat ghee in another pan and add the banana mixture and grinded mixture and combine well
7.  Stop the fire and immediately pour the banana halwa mixture in a greased pan or tray
8.  Spread evenly and when it cooled, cut into diamond shaped or square slices.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
                 
   
   
   
   
   
   

                 Serve  the  Sweet   Banana  Halwa

Nadan Palada Payasam Recipe

Ingredients :-

Rice  : -  1 Cup

Milk :- 2 ltrs

Sugar :-1 cup

Cardamom powder :-1/2 tsp

Plantain leaf :- as required

Method   of Preparation  :-

1. Wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes. Drain well and flour it well
2. Mix the rice flour with hot water and make it into a smooth paste
3. Spread the rice paste on the plantain leaf as thin as possible
4. Roll the leaf very carefully and steam it for 5 to 6 minutes
5. Shred the cooked rice layer and put aside
6. Boil the milk and add sugar , cardamom powder
7. Continue boiling till the quantity is slightly reduced
8. Then add the shredded rice and continue boiling for  2 or 3 minutes
9. Remove the pot  from fire and transfer it to a serving pot

    

     Serve the  hot  Nadan Palada Payasam

Nadan Pineapple Curry Recipe

Ingredients :-

Pineapple  :-  1 kg

Turmeric powder : - ½ tsp

Chilli powder :- 1tsp
Salt :-  as required

Fresh grated coconut  :–1 No

Small Onion :- 10gm

Green Chilli :- 5 Nos

Curry Leaves :- 2tsp

Cumin / Jeerakam :-10gm

Sugar:- 4tsp

Curd :- 1 glass

Mustard :-10gm

Coconut oil :- 50gm

Method  of  preparation :-

             

1. Peel and chop the pineapple into small pieces
2. Then mix it with salt,turmeric powder , chilli powder and sugar
3. Cook it by adding enough water .
4. Then mix the grated coconut, green chillies ,cumin/jeerakam , small onion and curry leaves and grind well
5. Keep the  mixture in another pot
6. Add  1 glass of curd into the pot and mix well with the pineapple and allow it to boil
7. Then add the grinded coconut mixture into the pot and combine well and keep it under fire for 2 minutes
8. Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the mustard and curry leaves and pour it over the curry

  Serve the hot Nadan Pneapple Curry with Nadan rice