Preparation time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 5

Ingredients for gatti: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 4 cups jackfruit or halasina hannu
2. 1 cup rice
3. 0.5 cup fresh grated coconut
4. 1/4 cup jaggery (adjust as per your sweet leavel)
5. Salt as per your taste
6. Banana leaves

Ingredients for kadubu: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 4 cups jackfruit or halasina hannu
2. 1 cup rice
3. Salt as per your taste

Instructions for making halasina hannina gatti:

1. Rinse and soak the rice for 30 minutes.
2. Cut and separate the edible part of the jackfruit. Optionally you can chop them for easy grinding.
3. Now take banana leaves and clean it thoroughly. Next either steam it or hold it on the stove top for few seconds. This is done to avoid breaking of the leaves while folding.
4. Take soaked rice, jackfruit, coconut, jaggery and salt in a mixie jar. Grind it into a fine batter, which is little coarse. Please note, you need not add any water while grinding.
5. Transfer it into the container. The batter shall have thick dropping consistency. If the batter is very thin, then you can add little rava to adjust the consistency.
6. Next place a handfull of batter on one banana leaf.
7. Next fold it like a packet. Please refer the image.
8. Like this continue and finish making all the packets.
9. Steam it for 30 minutes. Serve it with ghee or honey or coconut milk or coconut+coriander seeds chutney.

Instructions for making halasina hannina kadubu:

1. Take soaked rice, jackfruit and salt in a mixie jar. Grind it into a fine batter, which is little coarse. In this version you can use required water for grinding.
2. Transfer it into a container. The batter shall have idli batter consistency.
3. Next pour the batter into the plates and steam it for 30 minutes.
4. Cut and Serve it with ghee and coconut+coriander seeds chutney.

Dear reader, We have a Kannada version of this recipe. Click here to read this recipe in Kannada.