🇧🇩 Bangladesh recipe
Pitha
Pitha encompasses a vast family of traditional Bangladeshi rice cakes that mark the arrival of winter and the harvest of new rice. This recipe covers bhapa pitha, the most iconic variety, where rice flour dumplings are filled with a sweet coconut and date palm jaggery mixture and steamed until pillowy soft. Making pitha is a communal affair in rural Bangladesh, bringing families together during the cool winter months.
Prep30 mins
Cook40 mins
Serves15
Difficultymedium
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice flour (ideally from new-harvest rice)
- 1 cup freshly grated coconut
- 150g date palm jaggery (khejur gur), grated or chopped
- 0.5 teaspoon ground cardamom
- Pinch of salt
- Water for steaming
- 1 cup warm water (for the dough)
- Banana leaves for lining steamer (optional)
- 1 tablespoon sugar (optional, to adjust sweetness)
Method
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 260
- Protein
- 4.5 g
- Carbs
- 46 g
- Fat
- 7.5 g
