Here is the recipe
Ingredients (For 4 nos)
½ cup rice flour
½ cup Kurakkan flour (Ragi flour) (instead of both ragi & rice flour, you can use 1 cup Ragi Flour)
1 cup grated coconut
¼ cup honey (instead use 4 tsp sugar as a substitute,change the qty of sugar as per your taste)
Salt to taste
Method
Heat a pan & add grated coconut. Make it just warm & add honey or sugar & mix well. Remove from burner once the mix is brown in colour. Keep aside
In a bowl mix rice & ragi flour together.
Use some warm water into it & make dough.Add some salt to taste.
Spread kanda leaves or banana leaves on a table. (if you use banana leaves,keep it over a flame few minutes to reduce its moisture & cut into pieces of about 7’’ * 7 ‘’
Now take a small qty of the dough ,make it as a ball & spread over the leaf making a thin round shape pastry.
Put some from sugar/cocnut mixture on it & spread well.
Then fold it half & press the dough.
Continue the same process with remaining dough.
Steam for about 15-20 minutes or until cooked.
Serve & enjoy!!
6 comments
so nice and easy recipe to try,after reading this i am trying to do this.ragi flour is good for health.We eat regularly Ragi balls which is famous in our rayalaseema region in andhra pradesh state.thanks for giving a nice recipe.
I’m a new subscriber 😉 Thanks Amila for adding this recipe because I forgot how I did it before. Tks again.
Hi RG,Thanks for subscribing and sharing this coment.Hope you cooked and enjoyed Halapa.. 🙂
thanks for the comment.happy to see that you are trying it.This is a very easy to make recipe & a good way to eat ragi flour avoiding its strong taste
I made this today. Dont forget to add salt to the ragi mixture. Thank you for the recipe 🙂
Happy to hear that you made ‘Halapa’.Hope they came well….& Thanks for the remind about adding salt.I will edit the post accordingly….