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Potoli Pitha, Oriya Cuisine
Potoli Pitha is offered as prasad at the popular Baladev temple in Kendrapara in Orissa.

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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