Pitha
Winter's rice cakes: a whole family of steamed, fried and syrup-soaked cakes made from new rice flour, coconut and date jaggery during the cold months.
What it is
Winter's rice cakes: a whole family of steamed, fried and syrup-soaked cakes made from new rice flour, coconut and date jaggery during the cold months. Ingredients: rice flour, fresh coconut, date palm jaggery (khejur gur), milk, bananas, oil for frying; varieties: bhapa (steamed), chitoi (griddled), patishapta (crepes with kheer filling), puli (dumplings). Recipe: 1) Make a rice-flour batter or dough by variety. 2) Steam bhapa pitha in small bowls with coconut-jaggery hearts. 3) Griddle chitoi on clay pans. 4) Fill patishapta crepes with coconut kheer. Serve: at dawn in village winters and at Dhaka's pitha festivals. Flavor: smoky jaggery, coconut, new-rice perfume. History: pitha culture celebrates the aman rice harvest; the date jaggery of winter is Bengal's maple syrup, and pitha-making is women's artistry passed hand to hand. See also: Kacchi Biryani, Bhuna Khichuri.
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