Tuesday 17 June 2014

SUKLA MANDA (STEAMED RICE CAKE)



Ingredients
Rice powder 3 cups / grated coconut 1 cup / jaggery or sugar / green cardamom/ salt /

Method
Put a kadhai or degchi on the gas stove with 6 cups of water… add salt when water boils… slowly add rice powder and stir continuously to avoid lumps being formed…When the dough is prepared Remove from the gas…Put another kadhai on medium flame… put grated coconut, jaggery… fry till coconut becomes brown… add ilaichi powder and keep aside…knead the rice dough with little water and make some balls out of it… take each ball and make it like a cover… and put inside a little coconut stuff and seal it from all sides… make a round ball…And finally steam all balls in steamer …the sukla manda is ready to eat…

It’s called sukla manda in coastal Odisha and phuta manda in western Odisha.

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