Western Odisha famous Pitha recipe

Tekar Guda Pitha

Before going to this recipe I am going to tell you something interesting about the state from which the recipe belongs to. So the recipe belongs to the State is Odisha. Odisha is a beautiful coastal state. There is so many visiting place for example, Puri(well known for cart festival), Konark’s Sun Temple, Sambalpur’s Hirakud Dam, which is World’s longest dam, Bargarh’s Dhanu Yatra which is world’s largest open-air theater and many more. When I am talking about Odisha, which is my motherland how can I forget about the food.

 Odisha’s food is very authentic, tasty and delicious. You can find every kind of food here from savoury to sweet. When I am talking about Odisha food I must mention the Pitha recipes. There are so many Pitha recipes in Odisha and it is favorite food of every Odia. And trust me there are varieties of Pitha like Aarisa pitha, kakara pitha, chitau pitha, manda pitha, Anduri pitha, tekar guda pitha etc.

Recipe:

Ingredient: (Served for 4 people)

Boiled Rice	1 cup
Raw Rice	1 cup
Urad Dal	1 cup
Moong Dal(yellow)	1 cup
Milk	½ liter
Cardamom	4-5
Sugar	3 tbspoon
Salt

Instruction:

1.     First take 1 cup of each raw rice, boiled rice, Urad dal, moong dal(yellow) and soak them at least 7-8 hr(It’s better to soak them in the morning).

2.     Then make a batter with the help of a grinder. The consistency of the batter should not be thick or runny either.

3.     Leave the batter overnight so that the batter can start fragmenting.

4.     Now boil the ½ liter milk in a pan, then add sugar and cardamom 4-5 to it and boil it about for a 2-3 minute.

5.     Remove the milk from the flame and pour it on a large wider pot.

6.     Now heat a Kadai properly. Add salt 1 teaspoon in batter and mixed it properly.

7.     Once it heated pour 1 spoon of batter to it and cover it with a lid. Cook it slow flame for about 4-5 minutes.

8.     Once it is properly cooked you can small holes are created.

9.     Then remove it from Kadai and drop it into that milk. Serve Hot.

It is a very healthy dish as this recipe cooked without oil. If you are diabetic then you can eat this recipe without milk.

You can check the recipe in the following link.

https://youtu.be/hoHd19CAZFw