PODA PITHA

HAPPY RAJA TO ALL MY DEAR ONES..... ALL CREDIT WILL GO TO MY MOTHER WHO GUIDED ME FRM CUTTACK OVER TELEPHONE BECZ SHE IS BRILLIANT IN THIS CHAULA CHUNA PODA PITHA WHICH IS THE MAIN PITHA ON RAJA FESTIVAL..... AT MY EARLY STAGE I HAVE SEEN MY MOTHER MAKING THIS PITHA ON KATHA CHULI.... NOW FR ME ITS NT PSBL TO MAKE THIS ON THAT SO I MADE THIS ON MY GAS STOVE .... IT TOOK MAXIMUM TIME BT I AM SO HAPPY CAME OUT TOO GOOD..... 

Ingredients

5oo grams Rice powder / jaggery as per your taste / 2 cups grated coconut and1\2 cup small pieces of coconut / 3 table- spoon pure ghee / 1\2 cup fried kaju / 2 pieces of bay leaves / 4 green cardamom / 2 black cardamom / salt to taste / water as required/

Method

Put a dekchi on the gas…add water…In water, add salt, bay leaves, grated coconut, small pieces of coconut, jaggery, and fried kaju …let it be boiled for 3 to 4 minutes…Then add slowly rice powder till it becomes a thick batter…remove from the gas stove and knead immediately with little water…Then put cooker on the gas…heat cooker with 1 tbl spoon of pure ghee, then put some pieces of banana leaves inside the cooker with greasing little ghee on leaves …then put kneaded already made rice powder dough and make a round perfect shape with your hand then…cover the lid without gasket…leave it to be cooked for 90 minutes in low flame…Then remove it from the gas and let it be cool…cut it into small or medium pieces and serve…

This particular pitha is very usually prepared during the Rajo festival of Odisha. Rajo festival is celebrated for 3 days in the state of Odisha