Sweet potato puli pithe

Name: Sweet potato puli pithe
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 500 gms sweet potato; 1 bowl coconut scraped; 200 gms approx date palm jaggery or sugar; 100 gms khoya; 1 litre milk; 1/4 tsp green cardamom powder; 6 tbsp flour

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Pithe puli is specially made during winter season Poush Sankranti, but can be equally made during any vrat. Tastes best with winter season's first date palm jagger y or patali gur and in other seasons with sugar.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

1 hour

6 servings

500 gmssweet potato
1 bowlcoconut scraped
200 gmsapprox date palm jaggery or sugar
100 gmskhoya
1 litremilk
1/4 tsp green cardamom powder
6 tbspflour

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Steps

1 hour

1

Make a stuffing with scraped coconut.Boil jaggery or sugar in little water till it dissolves completely. Add the coconut and toss till sticky.Add crumbled khowa,mix well.Set aside to cool.
2

Boil and mash sweet potatoes.They should not be over boiled. Add some flour and mash well.Make balls and stuff each one with coconut khowa stuffing.Give it a boat shape and roll over some dry flour.Set aside.
3

Boil the milk till it's half the consistency.Add jaggery or sugar and boil.Carefully dip the dumplings in the boiling kheer one by one.Give it a boil and garnish with scraped coconut.