Pitha

Name: Pitha
Total time: 3000 s
Yield: 6_8 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 inch Ginger peeled and chopped; 2 cloves Garlic; 1/4 teaspoon Cumin (Jeera) seeds; as needed oil; to taste Salt; 1 teaspoon Ajwain Cooking; few chopped Coriander Leaves for garnish; To taste salt

Harminder Kaur Sethi @cook_12688480

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l m from Delhi ,Pitha a famous dish of Jharkhand
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Harminder Kaur Sethi @cook_12688480

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l m from Delhi ,Pitha a famous dish of Jharkhand
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Ingredients

50 min

6_8 servings

1 inchGinger peeled and chopped
2cloves Garlic
1/4 teaspoonCumin (Jeera) seeds
as needed oil
to tasteSalt
1 teaspoonAjwain Cooking
few chopped Coriander Leaves for garnish
To tastesalt

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Steps

50 min

1

Mixall the ingredients
Grind the soaked rice to a smooth paste using water
Dilute the ground batter by adding water to get a thin batter consistency.
Add salt and oil to the batter and miix well,Take a geavy bottom karahi & heat it& put the batter in it on low flame
2

Keep stirring the batter to prevent lumps and cook the rice flour batter till it turns into a soft dough. It might look as if the dough is turning lumpy and sticking to the ladle, but keep stirring till the entire batter cooks.
3

Drain the excess water from soaked dal and grind dal along with green chillies, ginger, garlic, salt, cumin seeds and make a paste.
Heat a kadai over low flame, with a teaspoon of oil and add the ground paste.
Keep stirring till the dal cooks well
4

Switch off and add the chopped cilantro leaves
5

Taking one ball at a time, pinch the corners and shape the balls to make a cup and spoon the dal stuffing. You can also use gujiya mould to shape the pithas.
6

Seal gently by pinching the ends using greased fingers.
Repeat the same for the entire batch
7

Place the pithas in the greased steamer and steam them for 8-10 minutes.
8

Serve hot with green chutney