Maralva Panna Phodi

Ingredients :


Maralva leaves ( a variety of colocasia leaves ) - 25 to 30
White rice - 2 cups
Urad dal - 1 cup
Red chillies - 12 to 15
Tamarind - A little
Grated coconut - 2 tsp
Oil - 2 cups
Rice flour - 1 cup
Salt - To taste


Method :


Dry fry urad dal till aroma comes.
Soak white rice and fried urad dal together for 1 hour. Then take grated coconut + red chillies + tamarind + salt and grind into a coarse paste. Before removing it, add soaked white rice and urad dal. Grind again ( not too fine paste ).
Wash the leaves and drain the water. Spread evenly the ground paste on leaves one by one. In one stack, 7 to 8 leaves can be kept. Fold the leaves stack horizontally. Then vertically roll it. Tie with the help of a thin thread by leaving 1 inch gap in between. Cut the leaf roll pieces where thread is rolled. Roll the pieces in rice flour evenly.
In a deep bottomed kadai, heat oil. Deep fry the leaf roll pieces which are binded with rice flour till brownish greened.