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Title: Vapa Pitha in this Winter
Post by: Samia Nawshin on December 17, 2014, 12:00:30 PM
Ingredients ;

1 cup parboiled rice ( I took parboiled basmoti)
2 tbl spoon store bought rice flour
Pinch of salt
Liquid milk+ water mixed

For the filling :

Grated fresh coconut
Jaggery ( I prefer khejur gur , molasses from silver date palm)

You can use any savory filling too , instead of coconut and jaggery , like meat , fish , or even veggies)

Procedure :

1. Soak the rice overnight or at least 5/6 hours .

2. Drain the water and let the rice drained out well .

3. Now grind it in a grinder or coffee grinder . add the store bought rice flour with it .

4. Mix some water and milk . Don’t take too much . Around 1/3 rd cup . Add salt and sprinkle water+milk in a way that the flour must seem wet , not dry at all .Neither it should look like batter. Don’t add the liquid at a time . You may not need that much liquid . If the flour binds together if you hld some of them in your palm , the flour is ready . It must not be dry that it doesn’t hold together . If the flour is dry, the pitha will break apart .

5. Now sieve the flour through the stariner . Take two pieces of clean cotton cloth and two small bowls .

6 . In the bowl spread some flour , then add the coconut and jaggery . Cover it with another layer of flour . Even it . Don’t press too much or else ,it will break down while placing it for steaming . Cover it with a piece of cloth and put in the steamer. Tap the bowl slightly , so that you can remove the bowl easily . Remove the bowl and cover the pitha with the remaining ends of the cloth .

7. Steam for 4/5 minutes . Prepare the same way using the the other bowl and cloth . You remove one pitha and place another . For steaming I don’t have that specific utensil for making bhapa pitha . Any steamer will do . I sometimes use
the Chinese bamboo steamer . You can do more than one at a time . Some times I just take a small saucepan with water and place a large metal strainer or large slotted spoon over it , so that it covers the face of the utensil . Boil the water and steam the bhapa pitha on it . But you must put the lid on while steaming .

These are the utensils , I used for steaming . You can use any of the method .
Title: Re: Vapa Pitha in this Winter
Post by: Mousumi Rahaman on December 17, 2014, 04:54:53 PM
Thanks........I  wanna make it... :P
Title: Re: Vapa Pitha in this Winter
Post by: Sharmin Jahan on January 12, 2015, 11:04:05 AM
want to eat  :)
Title: Re: Vapa Pitha in this Winter
Post by: Esrat on January 14, 2015, 07:28:17 PM
Please share the recipe of PATISAPTA pitha..
Title: Re: Vapa Pitha in this Winter
Post by: Esrat on January 15, 2015, 01:14:55 PM
Complicated procedure..
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Post by: ayasha.hamid12 on January 18, 2015, 12:58:39 PM
This is one of my favorites...  :D
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Post by: fernaz on January 27, 2015, 05:24:17 PM
Thanks to share this.......
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Post by: subartoeee on March 05, 2015, 05:06:28 PM
Good post.
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Post by: nmoon on March 15, 2015, 11:02:26 AM
Effective post.