Rice cakes -Sugar Elabalittu

Ingredients

1. Rice                 1 cup
2. Sugar               1 1/2 cups
3. Cardamom       6 powder 
4. Water               6 cups +1/2 cup
5. Coconut           1/2 cup[cut into small pieces]
6. Roasted gram   1/4 cup
7. Sugar                1 cup

Method

• Wash rice and soak for 5 hours.
• Grind to a smooth paste. Add water.
• The batter should be very thin consistency.
• Take a heavy-bottomed vessel add sugar and 1/2 cup water.
• Bring to boil and add the rice batter to it. Stir fastly. 
• Cook on a low flame. Add coconut and roasted gram. 
• Keep on stirring until the rice mixture gets thickened.
• The dough looks shining if cooked. Off the stove.
• Now add powdered cardamom. Mix thoroughly.
• Spread wet cloth on a table or broad plate.
• Take a ladleful rice cake and put it on the wet cloth.
• Close another wet cloth on the top, so the cakes won't dry.
• Cool it and have the tasty, yummy elabalittu.