Rice Coconut Stuffing Pitha
Rice Coconut Stuffing Pitha

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, rice coconut stuffing pitha. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Manda Pitha (Rice Dumpling with Sweet Coconut Filling). The reason being, the sweet stuffing was traditionally made with jaggery and even now, I'm not very fond of jaggery. But here is the thing - there is something alluring about heritage, traditions and culture. After I moved to the USA, I started to appreciate the world I left behind.

Rice Coconut Stuffing Pitha is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Rice Coconut Stuffing Pitha is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have rice coconut stuffing pitha using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Rice Coconut Stuffing Pitha:
  1. Take 1 cup rice flour
  2. Take 1/2 cup grated Jaggery as needed
  3. Take 1 tsp cardamom powder
  4. Take 1/2 cup mawa (khoya)
  5. Get 1 cup grated fresh coconut
  6. Prepare 1 cup milk
  7. Prepare Few raisins and cashew nuts
  8. Prepare 3 tbsp condensed milk

It is hugely popular in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Bhapa pitha is one of the most popular pithas in Bangladesh, made of powdered rice, coconut and date palm jaggery stuffed inside. It is one of the dessert items that strongly represents the Bengali heritage of cuisine. It is a popular pitha or dessert that is made during the winter.

Instructions to make Rice Coconut Stuffing Pitha:
  1. First boil the milk in a pan. When it comes half of the pan. Add condensed milk. Keep stiring continously till it become thick. Once it is done. Keep aside.The rabdi is ready
  2. Heat non stick kadai. Add jaggery and little water. Boil it ill the jaggery dissolves, Then add grated coconut. Cook till the coconut aand jaggery mix..Once it is done. Keep aside. The mixture is ready for stuffing
  3. Take rice flour in a bowl. Add little salt and luke warm water. Mix….and knead a smooth dough. Keep aside. Take a full dough. Roll it like a chapathi. Spread stuffing in the centre of the portion. Roll it carefully and sealed the side edges. Steam the pitha for 5 minutes. Check in between with fork, The fork is clean it shows the pitha is ready.
  4. Now transfer to a serving plate. Pour rabdi on the top of the pitha. Garnish with few raisins and cashew nuts. Ready to serve….

It is one of the dessert items that strongly represents the Bengali heritage of cuisine. It is a popular pitha or dessert that is made during the winter. When the decision was made, we went and pick mawa/ khowa kheer from Bowbazar. We picked a coconut as well. I already have Patali Gur, Maida, Suji and also rice flour at home and apart from these what I need is oil to make the famous Bengali delicacy Gokul Pitha aka Madhab Gokul Pithe. "Dudh" means milk in Bengali and "puli" is another name for pitha.

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