Steamed Pelakai gatti/Jackfruit Dumplings

This is a very famous Mangalorean cuisine. The color of gatti is usually bright yellow, the color depends on the leaf used to steam the gatti. 

Ingredients:
3 cups finely chopped Jackfruit flesh
1 cup jaggery/brown sugar
¼ cup water
1 tsp cardamom powder
1 tsp cumin seeds(crushed)
1 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
1 cup rice flour
½ cup grated coconut
1½ cup Jack fruit jam
a pinch salt
water
few bay Leaves or banana leaf

Method:
1) Melt jaggery in water(remove the impurities if any) and keep it aside.
2) Now make  a smooth paste of finely chopped jack-fruit by using a blender. 
3) Add Jack-fruit paste along with jaggery syrup, grated coconut, cumin seeds, cardamon powder and mix it nicely.
4) Add rice flour little by little to the above made mixture and make a smooth dough.
5) Sprinkle some water if needed to make a soft dough.
6) Make a cone with bay/banana leaf and fill it with the rice mixture.
7) Fold the top and pin it with a tooth pick. If using banana leaf fold a piece of the leaf like a triangle. Steam it in a pan using a steaming plate or bamboo steamer.
8) Cook for 20 minutes and check with a tooth pick to see how dumpling is cooked. If the dumpling is raw in the middle, continue cooking.
9) After cooking the dumplings to perfection remove them from the pan. Open the leaf and enjoy the aroma and flavour of Jack-fruit dumpling.