Pitha is a type of snack named so in Odisha. Here is a preparation of a pitha which requires few items and little labour.
Ingredients
- Rice - 2 cups
- Black Gram (biri) - 1 cup
- Jaggery (gur) - 100 gram
- Ginger - 1 inch
- Saunf (pan mouri) - 1 tsp
- Black Pepper Powder - half tsp
- Suji - Quarter cup
- Refine Oil or ghee - 50 ml
- Little salt
Process
First soak the rice and black gram(biri) for 4 to 5 hours separately. Take the soaked rice and make paste from it. Similarly make separate paste from black gram.
Take a bowl and thoroughly mix the pastes of rice and black gram. Add jaggery (gur) and suji to it. Also add smashed ginger, black pepper powder, saunf and salt to it and thoroughly mix the batter.
Take another shallow pan on the stove and add oil to it. As the oil becomes hot put the above batter on the pan and cover it with lid. Let it cook for 10 minutes on seam flame. After 10 minutes open the lid and make the half cooked pitha top side down by utensil. Again cover with lid and cook for five minutes. After elapse of five minutes take it out.
Your podo Pitha or rice cake is ready. Serve hot or cold.
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