• 2 cups Jackfruit, chopped
• 2 cups  white rice (or rice rava)
• ¼ cup coconut
• Jaggery 1/4 cup, or as required (may be omitted if jackfruit is extra sweet)
• Salt to taste.
• 8 Teak leaves (or 5 to 6 banana leaves cut into  medium sized pieces)

1. Wash and soak rice for 4 to 6 hours or overnight.
2. Grind along with jackfruit, coconut and jaggery to a very thick paste using very little water. Add salt.
3. If using rice rava, soak for 15 minutes. Grind the jackfruit, coconut, jaggery to a paste and mix  with the rava.
4. Place 2 ladles (or more depending on the size of the leaf) and fold into  a packet and place in steamer, seam side down and steam for 30 minutes.  Cooking time would vary according to size and thickness of the jackfruit cake.
5. Remove and cut into pieces, if cakes are large.
6. Serve for breakfast or as tea-time snack.  Also goes well with curries on festival menus.

These cakes are usually steamed in teak leaves, which impart a unique fragrance and reddish color to the cake. In the absence of teak leaves here, I have used banana leaves but would surely use teak leaves whenever I can get some and re-post the pictures. Canned jackfruit has been used in this recipe.