KULEPUTTU ( STEAMED JACKFRUIT CAKE)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup pulp of jackfruit or banana (very ripe fruit)
• 1 cup broken rice rava (Bansi variety)
• 2 cups jaggery liquidized
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder p.s(cup measure to remain constant in size)
• 50-80gms coconut cut up into small bits
• ¼ teaspoon cooking soda
• banana Leaves cut into 6′x 6′ pieces

Method:

• Wash the rice rava.
• Run the pulp through a sieve.
• Mix the rice rava and soda with the pulp and keep aside for 1 hour.
• Later mix this well with jaggery, salt and cardamom.
• Pass the banana leaves over a flame for a few seconds on both
• sidesto make it more pliable.
• Onto each leaf pour 4 Tablespoons of the rava mixture and garnish with coconut bits.
• Fold the banana leaf over the mixture and fasten with toothpicks.
• Like wise with the remaining pieces of banana leaf.
• Pile up the folded leaf strips filled with rava mixture in a shallow vessel and steam for 30-40 minutes.
• Serve with the banana leaf.
• Apply a little ghee before eating.