Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, manda pitha. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Manda Pitha is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Manda Pitha is something that I have loved my whole life.
Manda pitha (Odia: ମଣ୍ଡା ପିଠା) is a steamed pitha which is prepared in Odisha, India during festivals falling on monsoon and post-monsoon seasons like Manabasa Gurubara, Durga Puja, Kumar Purnima or Rakhi Purnima. The pitha resembles modak of Maharashtra and Kozhakkattai of South India. The name is derived from Odia word "Mandeiba" (Odia: ମଣ୍ଡେଇବା) means "to. Manda Pitha is a traditional delicacy prepared in Odia homes especially on the occasion of festivals.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook manda pitha using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Manda Pitha:
- Take 2 cups semolina/rava/sooji
- Get 1/2 cup fine sugar
- Make ready 1 cup grated coconut
- Take 1/4 cup jaggery or Sugar
- Get 5-6 pods cardamom powder
- Get 2 tsp Ghee
- Prepare 2 cups refined oil for deep frying
Keep stirring it in low heat until all water is absorbed and it forms into a ball. Turn off the gas and cover the dough. After a lot of brainstorming, I planned for something very much rustic and authentic. Not much complicated yet very precious flavours.
Steps to make Manda Pitha:
- First make the coconut stuffing, for that dry roast the grated coconut in a pan for few minutes. Then add the jaggery or sugar to it & stir continuously until the excess water dries off.
- Now we are going to make a simple sugar syrup. For that boil water & add the sugar to it & wait until the sugar dissolves. Add cardamom powder and 2 tsp ghee to it & boil it for a couple of minutes more. Then lower down the heat & add the semolina little by little & stir continuously.stir for 2-3 minutes. You can add warm water if the mixture turns too dry & hard to stir.
- Now cool it down a bit. Then knead the semolina mixture with ur hand until the texture is soft. After that take a small portion of the mixture & stuff it with prepared coconut mixture & cover it up.
- Now deep fry all the Monda balls in hot oil. Drained out the excess oil & cool it down a bit. Then serve.
After a lot of brainstorming, I planned for something very much rustic and authentic. Not much complicated yet very precious flavours. Yes, the title says it all… MANDA PITHA is not any simple Odia dish, it is quite connected to the cultural roots of one of the oldest culture of the country, or. The golden caramel of jaggery will coat coconut. Add Green cards powder and black pepper powder to it.
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