Traditional snack palm leaf kozhukkatta

Ingredients

• Rice flour – 1 cup
• Banana – 4 or 5 nos
• Grated Jaggery – ½ cup
• Cinnamon -4 nos
• Cashew nut -1/2 cup
• Raisins- small hand full
• Black sesame seed – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 pinch

Method

• Heat water in a pan add grated jaggery and boil them well.
• Then drain and set aside.
• Crush cardamon into powder and set aside.
• Again we have to crush cashew nut and keep aside.
• Clean the palm leaves and Cut them in to medium pieces. Make threads using the leaflets itself to tie
  the ola pidi .
• Now we take the jaggery water pan and add peeled banana ,then mash them well with clean hands.
• Add rice flour, black sesame seeds,crush cashewnut,cardamom powder,raisins and pinch of salt, mix
  them well and knead to a smooth dough.
• Then Open the leaves ,take a small portion of the dough and fill in palm leaf and cover the other side
  with another palm leaf and tie with the thread we made using palm leaflets.
• Heat water in a idli steamer and add cardamom
• Then place a idli plate into the steamer, arrange the ola pidi and steam them well.
• Remove from fire and keep aside
• Serve the traditional snack palm leaf kozhukkatta (ola pidi) with tea