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Enduri Pitha, Oriya Recipe
Enduri pitha, an Oriya dish, is served as a special delicacy during the Prathamastami festival |
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Ingredients:
1and 1/2 cup rice
1 cup black gram
1 cup grated coconut
100 gm paneer
150 gm jaggery or gur
3 small cardamoms
6 peppercorns
Green turmeric leaves
Salt to taste
Method:
Soak rice and black gram (skinless) for 4 hours.
Grind into a thick batter leaving a little coarseness in the rice.
Whip well.
Leave the batter for fermenting for 8 hours.
Add salt and mix properly.
Place a frying pan on medium flame for preparing the stuffing.
Add the scrubbed coconut, paneer and jaggery and fry till it becomes a bit dry.
Add powdered cardamom and black pepper. Keep aside.
To prepare the pitha take one whole green turmeric leaf.
Put a little batter on the leaf and flatten the same.
Put the required quantity of stuffing on the batter and fold the turmeric leaf lengthwise in such a way that the stuffing gets sandwiched in between two layers of batter.
Tie a thread around the folded leaf to keep it secured.
Steam it in the take a wide mouthed pot.
Fill half of the pot with water.
Tie a muslin cloth tightly around its mouth.
Carefully place the tied leaf containing stuffed batter on the cloth.
Cover it with a concave shaped lid.
Steam it till it is done.
Steam the pithas one after another in this method.
In case of the turmeric leaf is unavailable use the plantain leaf.
(Last Updated on : 21/01/2010)
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