CHITAU PITHA with Mini Chitau balls

Name: CHITAU PITHA with Mini Chitau balls
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 Kg rice (taken Tuta Basmati); 1 Coconut (grated); 1 Tablespoon Sugar; as required Ghee; as per taste Salt; As needed Muslin or Simple lite weight Wet Cloth; as required Milk and Grated Coconut; as per taste Sugar for additional taste for serving as required

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#coco, #post1,This is a Coconut based recipe which is grind together with Soaked rice with grated Coconut and just made Pitha. Odisha delicacy, this usually made during Manabasa Gurubar and Chitau Amavasya or Chitalagi Amavasya.

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Ingredients

30 mins

6 servings

1/2 Kgrice (taken Tuta Basmati)
1Coconut (grated)
1 TablespoonSugar
as requiredGhee
as per tasteSalt
As neededMuslin or Simple lite weight Wet Cloth
Garnishing:
as requiredMilk and Grated Coconut
as per tasteSugar for additional taste for serving as required

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Steps

30 mins

1

Soak rice in water for 5 hr's.Then drain all water and grind it with grated coconut
2

Now add salt and little Sugar to the paste and Whip it properly for 3 mins. Then keep it aside for 3 hr's to ferment.
3

Now turn on the gas place a Kadhai pour there 1/2 teaspoon of oil, when it gets heated then take 2 ladle full of batter and make it round shape. Cover the lid just to the top of the Pitha, and to it's top place a cotton wet cloth in a round shape over the lid for 2 to 3 mins. Check in the fig given below. Cook it on slow to medium flame. Small....small hole will appear like this as shown in the fig.
4

Don't flip the Pitha just bring it out. Like wise repeat the same process in making other Pitha.
5

Like wise you can prepare Mini Chitau Balls with the same batter and make Chitau balls in a Appe maker by applying little oil and pour the batter and just cover the lid and cook for 5 mins in slow and medium flame. Don't need to flip it and serve with Hot milk. Garnish it with grated Coconut