Podo pitha (rajo cake)
Podo pitha (rajo cake)

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Great recipe for Podo pitha (rajo cake). This is a special cake baked by every Odia. It is a speciality of the festival "rajo" that is to celebrate womanhood. So this is baked then and anytime of the year because it's tasty as well as healthy.

Podo pitha (rajo cake) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Podo pitha (rajo cake) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have podo pitha (rajo cake) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Podo pitha (rajo cake):
  1. Make ready 1 cup gota urad dal
  2. Prepare 1 cup raw rice
  3. Prepare 1/2 cup wheat flour
  4. Take 1 tbsp wheat flour for adding into pressure cooker
  5. Take 50 ml coconut milk
  6. Take 200 g jaggery powder
  7. Take to taste Salt
  8. Prepare 1/2 tsp fennel powder
  9. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
  10. Make ready 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp grated ginger
  12. Prepare 1/4 tsp baking powder
  13. Take 3 tbsp desi ghee
  14. Prepare Handful dry fruits
  15. Prepare Handful coconut pieces

Soak the rice for four hours. Drain out water and hang for one hour tieing in a white muslin cloth. Grind the rice to make smooth powder. Now take a heavy base pan , add water, jaggery,ginger, ghee, coconut, and boil it.

Steps to make Podo pitha (rajo cake):
  1. Wash and soak urad dal and rice for at least 5 hours or overnight. Next wash both of them and grind them into a fine paste. Keep in a warm place and allow natural fermentation. If you find bubbles you know it's fermented.
  2. Next take a large mixing bowl. Put the fermented batter, add wheat flour, jaggery powder, salt, fennel powder, cardamom powder, black pepper powder and grated ginger. Add coconut milk and mix all well. Keep this aside.
  3. Now heat a tawa. Over it place the pressure cooker. Keep the flame slow. Take the batter, add dry fruits, coconut pieces and mix. Put baking powder and mix evenly in one direction. Do not overwork it. So now batter is ready. Now in the pressure cooker, put ghee. Use a brush and coat the walls of the cooker. Next take a tbsp of wheat flour, put into the ghee. Keep flame slow, else it will burn. Now pour the prepared batter over it carefully. Garnish with dry fruits.
  4. Now place the cooker lid. Remove the whistle. Let it get baked in slow flame for 30 minutes. As it gets baked you will get nice aroma of the spices. Switch off then. As it cools a bit remove the lid. Poke and check. It must be clean, indicating that it's baked. Cover with a net, do not put cooker lid else condensation with spoil your pitha.
  5. As pitha comes to room temperature. Loosen the sides with a knife and invert it carefully on to a plate.
  6. Podo pitha(rajo cake) is ready… Cut and serve… It has an unique taste.. it's sugar free and has combination of healthy ingredients.. Do try the recipe…
  7. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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