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Potoli Pitha, Oriya Cuisine
Potoli Pitha is offered as prasad at the popular Baladev temple in Kendrapara in Orissa. |
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Ingredients:
1/2 cup wheat flour
1 cup paneer
1/2 cup molasses
4 cups of refined flour
2 cups grated coconut
2 cups of sugar
1 teaspoon cardamom powder
300 gms ghee
Method:
Take 31/2 cup wheat flour in a bowl and add water and salt to it.
Make a thick batter. Make sure there is no lump in it.
Take grated coconut in another bowl and add paneer and sugar to it.
Mix them well.
Heat a pan and fry the coconut and paneer mixture on it.
Then add cardamon powder to it. Keep aside.
Take another frying pan and heat it.
Take a tablespoon of flour batter and spread it on the pan with the back of the spoon, spiralling from the middle to the circular edge of the pan.
The spread must be thick.
Put the coconut and paneer mixture in the middle of the batter in the frying pan.
Fold the spread from four sides and give it a shape of four-folded rectangle.
Make as many four-folded pithas as possible.
Now take 1/2 cup refined flour, wheat flour, molasses and water in a bowl and make a thin paste.
Dip the pithas into it.
Deep-fry them in ghee until both sides of the pitha become red-brown.
(Last Updated on : 5/02/2010)
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