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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Mohura Pitha – Assamese Cuisine

Taking you to the North Eastern state of India - Assam. Assam is rich in culture and is quite popular for the Assam tea, Assam Silk and Assam Oil. Assamese cuisine has a lot of drying and fermentation in their process. Usage of spices are not much here but use of Fish and vegetables are used a lot with the center dish – rice. Coming in today’s recipe, it is a delicious sweet called Pitha. Pitha is a rice cake made on the special occasion like Bihu. For this state, my search ended quickly when I saw this recipe in Gayathri’s blog and did it. I got this from here and loved it..

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Ingredients

Rice Flour - 1 1/4 cup
Warm Water - 3/4 cup (add a table spoon at a time)
Salt - A pinch
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tea spoon
Coconut - 1/2 cup (grated)
Sugar - 1/4 cup (adjust to taste)

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Method

Mix together coconut, sugar and cardamom powder and set this aside. This is the filling
Knead together rice flour, salt and warm water until you get a soft and pilable dough. Add a table spoon of water at a time
Make 12 portions of the dough
To each dough, make a ball, then press between the palms and make a small disc
Make these discs into a small bowl (like how you do for kozhukkattai)


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Keep about 3/4 tea spoon of filling inside
Seal the edges and make a semi circle and then shape it to a spindle
Heat water in a pan and bring it to a boil
When the water is boiling, add the pitha slowly and cool for 10 minutes
After 10 minutes, remove the pithas from water with the help of a slotted ladle and place it on a perforated plate.
Serve warm

Points to note

Touch little rice flour to help make the bowl or the dough may stick
I used a pan and boiled the pithas in 2 batches
Keeping the cooked pithas on a perforated plate will help remove the excess moisture
I removed the pithas with a slotted silicon ladle as that would be gentle on the pithas instead of a steel one.

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26 comments:

  1. Pitha looks so tasty and fulfilling to look at pithe. Excellent preparation.
    Deepa

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  2. Lovely Pitha...In Bengal we call it pithe...prepared during Sankranti...

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  3. God one..I love the plate/tray you used in the pictures. I wonder where I could get one like that.

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  4. wonderful pitha with some coconut stuffing

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  5. Pitha looks very inviting soumya!! very nicely explained with step-by-step pictures.

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  6. Very delicious, similar to our kozhukattais (modaks) right..

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  7. Such a delicious pitha, i can munch some anytime, cant resist to them.

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  8. Loved the banana leaf presentation. The pitha look very nice.

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  9. Oh my such an delicious and yummy looking pitha very well made dear :) and such lovely pictorials :) wonderful post , I wud love to grab some right away :)

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  10. Perfect Pithas. And your stepwise explanation is so good...

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  11. look just like our kozhukattais.. nicely made

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  12. So much like our kozhukottais ! Lovely shape too ..

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  13. These pithas look so good Sowmya..very nicely done..it's quite tricky to boil it directly right..for ppl who make kozhukattai, this comes naturally I am sure..

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  14. I love this stuffing...it is just like the Gujia stuffing only the base is different and the method..must have tasted yum.

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  15. Looks yum. Your step-wise pictures are great

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  16. When I saw this recipe in Gayathri space, I bookmarked it but finally tried other recipe..Love to give a try after see your click..

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  17. such detailed step by step pics are amazing

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  18. This looks so delicious and also so simple to make....So similar to our kozhukattai, but boiling it directly is different!

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  19. Wonderful looking pithas,sounds healthy..

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  20. Delicious pitha's.. They are tempting.

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  21. Looks so nice Sowmya and well explained too...

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  22. These pitha look like a traditional sweet. Nicely done.

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  23. It sounds like the south Indian version kozhukattai / kudumulu. Love these coconut filled, healthy pithas.

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  24. Pitha looks very delicious and beautiful....

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