Jack fruit( chakka) Ada is my all time favorite. In Kerala, you get to have chakka ada, chakka varattiyathu,chakka chips during summer(March to May).When you live in a temperate zone where few arils of Jack fruit cost you $5….then you tend to rely on canned Jack fruit imported from Thailand or Philippines. I used the frozen banana leaf from Philippines for this recipe. Chakka ada takes me back to those nostalgic memories of my school summer vacations.
Ingredients:
1.Roasted Rice flour-2 cups
2.Ripe Jack fruit pulp – ½ cup
3.Jaggery- 1 cup
4.Grated coconut – 1 cup
5.Salt- a pinch
6.Cardamoms -3 No
7.Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
8.Shallot- 1 No
9.Banana leaves( Vazhayila) for wrapping the Adas