Recipe: Eating on a Dime Doodh puli pitha

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Doodh puli pitha. This is the recipe for Dudh Puli Pitha (also called Kheera Puli Pithe), a traditional dessert from Bengal made to celebrate Poush Parbon (Makara Sankranti). These are essentially packets made of rice flour dough that are stuffed with a coconut-jaggery mix, and cooked in sweetened milk. No, doodh pithi and bengali doodh puli pitha recipe are not the same.

Our family special was and continues to be, doodh puli or rice flour dumplings stuffed with coconut and boiled in thick milk sweetened with date palm sugar.

I don't remember if it was a holiday but I never went to school on Shankranti.

Here is Dudh Puli Pitha Recipe.

You can have Doodh puli pitha using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Doodh puli pitha

1. Prepare of rice flour.

2. Prepare of date jaggery.

3. Prepare of medium sized fresh coconut, scraped.

4. Prepare of cardamom powder.

5. Prepare of milk.

6. You need of rose essence or rose water.

7. Prepare of dry rice flour.

8. It’s of salt.

It is one of the famous Bengali Pitha Recipe.

Basically Pitha is a Authentic Bengali Sweet of West Bengal and Bangladesh.

Usually Bengali make Pitha or Pithe during.

For the puli or the shell, mix rice flour with hot water and knead it well to form a soft dough.

Doodh puli pitha step by step

1. In a non stick kadai put scraped coconut and saute for 2 minutes.

2. Add 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup water 200 gm date jagggery and cook in low flame till the mixture dries up by continuous stirring.

3. Add 1 tsp dry rice flour and cardamom powder mix well and keep aside to cool.

4. In another pan boil 1 cup water when starts boiling switch off the gas and keep the water aside to let it little warm.

5. In a kadai add 1.5 cup rice flour and salt mix nicely then mix 2 spoons warm water and stir, add water little by little to make a dough.

6. When the dough gathers together and starts leaving sides switch off the gas.

7. Knead the dough nicely when it is still hot.

8. Cover the dough with a wet cloth.

9. Make small ball from the dogh add little dry rice flour in it, flatten it and make like katori.

10. Stuff 1spoon coconut mixture in the centre, close the edges like gujhiya.

11. Make all the dough like this.

12. Meanwhile in a kadai put the milk and let it reduce 3/4th,add 100 gm jaggery to it cook on low flame add the pithas in the milk and cook till the upper surface of pithas look smooth and glazy and milk is thicken it may take 15 minutes.

13. Add rose essence to it.

14. Serve it warm or cool as per your taste.

Be careful as the dough will be hot.

Use a ladle to mix the rice flour first before processing to knead with hands.

Dudh Puli Recipe / Puli Pitha Recipe.

Dudh Puli Recipe or Pooli Pithe is a Poush/Makar Sankranti classic in my culture.

According to the Hindu calendar, Sankranti is celebrated to mark the end of the month-long winter solstice and the start of longer days or so Wikipedia says.