Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, manda pitha. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
We Have Almost Everything on eBay. 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 one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Manda pitha is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook manda pitha using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Manda pitha:
- Make ready 1 Pinch salt
- Take 1 cup sooji / semolina
- Prepare 1 cup of sugar
- Prepare 2 cardamon
- Prepare 1 tbsp of ghee
- Take For stuffing
- Make ready 1 cup grated coconut
- Get 1/2 teaspoon cardamom
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon black peper
- Take 1 tablespoon ghee
- Make ready 50 gm dry fruits
- Take 1/4 cup jaggery
Add rice flour and corn flour to it - part by part, while continuously stirring it to avoid lumps. 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.
Steps to make Manda pitha:
- For preparing the dough we need to take salt,sugar and cardamom in a heavy bottomed pan and boil till the sugar dissolved
- Add ghee,lower the flame and slowly add the suji,stirring constantly so that lumpy are not formed.keep stirring till the mixture becomes a thick.this will take 2 minutes.
- Take it off from the flame and keep it aside.
- Meanwhile to prepare to fill add ghee in a heat pan and fry the freshly grated coconut in low flame till the light brown.
- Add jaggery, cardamom and black powder and fry till the jaggery melt.finally add the cashew and raisins and fry for a minute and switch off the flame
- Take a spoon of ghee,add to the prepared warm semoline dough and knead it to form a dough.make even balls from the dough flatten it on your palm make a depression and stuff some coconut.then close it from all sides make a ball flatten it a little bit with the palm of your hand.
- Deep fry them in hot oil golden brown.
- Manda pitha is ready.
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. 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.
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