Recipe: at dinner Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli

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Recipe: at dinner Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli. Rice flour dumplings infused with delicious mixture of grated coconut and date palm jaggery and boiled in thickned milk. Today, I am sharing the recipe for the traditional Bengali sweet called Dudh Puli Pitha These are essentially packets of rice flour dough that are stuffed with a sweet jaggery-coconut mix, and then cooked in milk.

A Bengali delicacy aka Puli Pitha.

Rice dumplings filled with palm jaggery and coconut filling is cooked in milk, either plain or flavored with palm jaggery.

Dudh Puli is a famous Bengali milk based Payesh/ Kheer/ Pudding prepared by slow-cooking milk with Puli (also known as rice flour dumplings) stuffed with cooked coconut.

You can cook Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli

You need of For The Dumpling Dough:.
It’s 2 cup of rice flour.
You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon powder.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare As needed of hot water to knead a soft and smooth dough.
It’s of For The Stuffing:.
It’s 1.5 cup of grated coconut.
Prepare 3/4 cup of grated patali gur (date palm jaggery).
It’s of For Boiling Milk (Making Kheer):.
You need 1 litre of full fat milk.
You need 2 of bay leaves.
It’s 1/2 tsp of cardamom powder.
You need 1/2 cup of grated patali gur (date palm jaggery).

I have grown up having with two different types of Dudh Puli.

At my ancestral house, Dudh Puli was always and till date prepared with Notun Gur/ Patali Gur.

Chirer Dudh Puli is a Bengali Style Rice Dumpling kheer which you can make for special occasions, festivals or with your weekend meals.

A delicious Bengali dessert that can be served as a dessert after your meal of Dhokar Dalna, Bengali Style Sheem Poshto and Luchi for your Lunch or dinner.

Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli step by step

Pour milk in a heavy bottom vessel and add bay leaves. On a low to medium flame, bring it to a boil. Simmer the milk gently until reduced to half by stirring frequently. This should take roughly around 1 hour..
Meanwhile, make the stuffing by adding ingredients mentioned in "For The Stuffing" section. On a low flame, stir until the two ingredients mix properly and the coconut is little fried..
The stuffing should be sticky such that if you compress, it should stick together. Once it’s done, remove it from the flame and keep aside..
For the dough, mix all the ingredients as mentioned in "For The Dumpling Dough" section together and knead a smooth dough..
Cut small balls from the dough. With the help of your fingers, press the balls to make bowl shapes..
Now, stuff them with coconut stuffing and seal the edges to make half moon shaped dumplings. If possible, make design on the edges by curving them with your fingers..
Once the dumplings are ready, keep them aside..
Check the milk, once it is reduced to half, remove the bay leaves from it with the help of a spatula..
Now, slowly drop the dumplings in the milk. On a low flame, cook it for 20 minutes..
Add grated patali gur and cardamom powder to the milk and stir slowly and carefully by not hampering the dumplings. The patali gur should melt well..
Once it’s done, turn off the flame and cover the lid. Let it come to the room temperature..
The Dudh Puli / Kheer Puli is ready now..

Dudh puli pitha recipe step by step - Dudh puli is a traditional bengali pithe or pitha and Makar Sankranti or poush sankranti(in Bengal) is the best time to make it at home.

Bengali style Dudh puli means half-moon shaped stuffed rice cake or dumpling cooked in dudh or milk.

I grew up in Assam, where Makar sankranti is celebrated as bhogali bihu, which is mainly a harvest festival and marks the end of harvesting seasons.

Bhogali means eating and enjoyment. "Dudh" means milk in Bengali and "puli" is another name for pitha.

Dudh puli can be described as rice flour dumpling with coconut filling cooked in cardamom and cinnamon infused milk.