Kerala Snack Ottada- Rice Parcel in Banana Leaf Ottada is sweet rice flour parcels wrapped in banana leaves. There is nothing fancy about ottada, and it is one of the forgotten, traditional old-fashioned teatime snacks of Kerala. There is the smell of charred fresh banana leaves. You bite into crispy sweet rice and coconut filling flavored with chakkavaratti/ jack fruit jam. Jack fruit preserve is a staple in Kerala homes, but it is an optional flavor enhancer. Rice and coconut are important in all traditional Kerala snacks, and jaggery or palm sugar is the preferred sweetener. These traditional teatime snacks are simple, and it invokes nostalgic sweet childhood memories. Grandmother sometimes wraps it into neat parcels and place it on embers or burning charcoal. It will need lots of practice, so for a novice like me, the slow cooking on manchatti is the better option. Kerala delicacies like elaada, kozhukatta , and ottada are very similar to each other. Elada and ottada have t...