Wash & soak rice for about 5-6 hrs, blend to a thick smooth batter, using very less water, wash turmeric leaves gently wipe them dry, keep leaves ready, heat the saucepan/Kadai add jaggery and v.little water, it melts and turns into liquid, now add in fresh coconut and cardamom powder, add a pinch of salt and a tsp ghee, let it gets thicken cook until 5-6 minutes, combine everything well together.. turn off the flame, let jaggery mixture to cool down.

Smear the leaf with a thin layer of batter, starting from the bottom to top direction, place a spoon full of jaggery mixture in the center and fold the leaf as shown in the main picture, prepare all the leaves, in the same way, place the patolis in the steamer, place them with the open side facing up, this is to prevent jaggery oozing out while steaming, steam about 25-30 minutes.

Remove the leaves, discard them, serve hot with ghee and enjoy this heavenly tasting sweet 😋