Manda Pitha

Name: Manda Pitha
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups semolina/rava/sooji; 1/2 cup fine sugar; 1 cup grated coconut; 1/4 cup jaggery or Sugar; 5-6 pods cardamom powder; 2 tsp Ghee; 2 cups refined oil for deep frying

Nayak Shreya @cook_19792393

This is basically a eastern odisha dish which is prepared during the month of "Margshir",and it is offered to Goddess Laxmi

Nayak Shreya @cook_19792393

This is basically a eastern odisha dish which is prepared during the month of "Margshir",and it is offered to Goddess Laxmi

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Ingredients

5 people

2 cupssemolina/rava/sooji
1/2 cupfine sugar
1 cupgrated coconut
1/4 cupjaggery or Sugar
5-6 pods cardamom powder
2 tspGhee
2 cupsrefined oil for deep frying

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Steps

1

First make the coconut stuffing, for that dry roast the grated coconut in a pan for few minutes. Then add the jaggery or sugar to it & stir continuously until the excess water dries off.
2

Now we are going to make a simple sugar syrup. For that boil water & add the sugar to it & wait until the sugar dissolves. Add cardamom powder and 2 tsp ghee to it & boil it for a couple of minutes more. Then lower down the heat & add the semolina little by little & stir continuously.stir for 2-3 minutes. You can add warm water if the mixture turns too dry & hard to stir.
3

Now cool it down a bit. Then knead the semolina mixture with ur hand until the texture is soft. After that take a small portion of the mixture & stuff it with prepared coconut mixture & cover it up.
4

Now deep fry all the Monda balls in hot oil. Drained out the excess oil & cool it down a bit. Then serve.