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Assam’s sweet dish Pitha is prepared from rice flour, milk.
The stuffing of jaggery and grated coconut is filled in pitha recipe.
Pitha Recipe: North East’s state Assam is known for its geographical beauty as well as for its different food and drink. Asar’s famous local sweet dish Pitha is very much liked. Pitha prepared from rice flour, milk and coconut is tasty as well as very healthy. Apart from breakfast, it can be eaten at any time of the day. If you are fond of food, then you can try the recipe of Assamese pitha. People of all age groups like this flavourful food dish. Making this recipe is also easy.
If you also want to taste Assamese pitha, then it can be prepared by following a very easy method. In the series of North East Famous Food Recipe Special, today we will tell you the simple recipe of Assamese Pitha.
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Ingredients for making Pitha
Rice flour – 1 cup
Milk – 1/2 liter
Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup
Jaggery – 1/2 cup
Almonds – 1 tbsp
Bay leaf – 1
Sugar – 1 cup
Cardamom – 4-5
Water – half cup
Pitha Recipe
To make Assamese pitha, first pour milk in a pan and boil it on low flame. When the milk becomes slightly hot, add cardamom and bay leaves to it and cook for 5 minutes. After this, add sugar to the milk and cook while stirring with a spoon. Meanwhile, put rice flour in a utensil and add water little by little and knead the dough and cover it for 10 minutes and keep it aside.
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Now grate the coconut and grind or grind the jaggery as well. After this, put coconut and jaggery in a vessel and add chopped almonds to it and mix. After this, break the dough balls. Now take one ball and roll it round. Place the prepared stuffing in the middle of it and make round balls. After this, keep it on the palm and press it lightly with your hand and flatten it to give it the shape of pitha. Similarly prepare pithas from all the balls.
When the milk boils well, add the prepared pitha in it and let it cook while stirring for 5-7 minutes. After this take out pitha in a bowl. Garnish the almond clippings on top. The recipe of Pitha full of taste is ready.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : May 02, 2023, 13:21 IST
