Manda Pitha

Name: Manda Pitha
Total time: 3000 s
Yield: 5- 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Sooji; 1/2 cup Sugar; 1 tsp Ghee; 1.5 cup Milk; 1/2 Coconut; 3/4 cup Jaggery; 1 cup Milk

Sudipa Gope @Sudipagope

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Jaggery Coconut filling Manda Pitha .

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Jaggery Coconut filling Manda Pitha .

Sudipa Gope @Sudipagope

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Jaggery Coconut filling Manda Pitha .

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Jaggery Coconut filling Manda Pitha .

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Ingredients

50 minutes

5- 6 servings

1 cupSooji
1/2 cupSugar
1 tspGhee
1.5 cupMilk
1/2Coconut
3/4 cupJaggery
1 cupMilk

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Steps

50 minutes

1

Assemble ingredients for coconut filling.
2

Grate / scrape coconut, in pan, add water + jaggery, let jaggery melt, then add coconut + Milk + cardamom, mix well and cook till coconut gets cooked, moisture evaporates and mixture turns thick.
Coconut Filling is done, discard cardamom and allow to cool.
3

Assemble ingredients
4

In a pan add milk, add sugar + cardamom powder + ghee and stir well. Now put to flame and wait for a boil.Add semolina and keep stirring under low to medium flame.
Keep stirring till semolina is cooked and turns thick. Make sure to prevent forming of lumps.
5

Don’t thick much as after cooling it will turn more thick and turn solid, keep on the softer side and immediately transfer to a plate / thali. Allow to cool for some time.
6

Grease palms with ghee and knead it gently while it is warm by adding little more Ghee.
Grease palms and Now start pinching medium size balls from the Suji mixture and give shape of a bowl. Then gently flatten bowl with help of both palms and keep aside. Place the coconut filling in the middle and seal with the help of edges.
7

Put steamer ready, steam the pithas for 7-8 minutes. Manda Pitha is done.
8

Manda Pitha is ready to serve.