Potali Pitha

Ingredients

5 cups of Maida / 2 cups of sugar / 2 cups of milk / 3 cups grated coconut / 1 tea-spoon green cardamom powder / 5 table- spoon pure ghee / oil or pure ghee for deep frying / salt to taste 

Method

Take maida…put sugar and salt…make a thick batter with sufficient water..fry grated coconut sugar and green cardamom powder for stuffing…put a tawa on gas stove… grease little ghee on that and pour little batter of maida in a cross shape …put little stuffing in the middle of the cross… make it four folds as like a hanky… put it aside…take another bowl…make a thick batter of maida , sugar, milk and little salt …deep the already made hanky shape pitha into the presently made batter and deep fry in pure ghee or refined oil….the potali pitha is ready…

It’s a special dish in Kendrapada and its a special bhog(offering) for Baldevjiu temple in Kendrapada.