POTALI PITHA AND RASABALI OF KENDRAPADA IS UNDOUBTEDLY DELICIOUS AND IS AN ORIGINAL RECIPES OF THE KITCHENS OF KENDRAPADA(one of the coastal districts of odisha).... BOTH THE RECIPES ARE OFFERED AT THE FAMOUS BALDEV JI TEMPLE AT KENDRAPADA...... POTALI PITHA===== Ingredients 5 cups of Maida / 2 cups of sugar / 2 cups of milk / 3 cups grated coconut / 1 tea-spoon green cardamom powder / 5 table- spoon pure ghee / oil or pure ghee for deep frying / salt to taste / Method Take maida…put sugar and salt…make a thick batter with sufficient water..fry grated coconut sugar and green cardamom powder for stuffing…put a tawa on gas stove… grease little ghee on that and pour little batter of maida in a cross shape …put little stuffing in the middle of the cross… make it four folds as like a hanky… put it aside…take another bowl…make a thick batter of maida , sugar, milk and little salt …deep the already made hanky shape pitha into the presently made batter and deep fry in pure ghee or refined oil….the potali pitha is ready… RASABALI====== Ingredients Cheese 200 grams / suji or maida 1 table- spoon / green cardamom powder / 500ml milk / 1 cup sugar / oil for frying / Method Squeeze out all the water content from the cheese…add suji or maida and knead properly…add cardamom powder…make it into small balls…boil milk with sugar, cardamom powder for 10 minutes in low flame…remove from the gas…place a kadhai on gas…pour oil…let it get hot…You take each ball and press it on your palm to make it like a small flat roti…Fry it in hot oil till both the sides become brown… put it into boiled milk ….serve cool…
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