KAKHARU PODA PITHA (pumpkin cake)
KAKHARU PODA PITHA (pumpkin cake)

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kakharu poda pitha (pumpkin cake) using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make KAKHARU PODA PITHA (pumpkin cake):
  1. Make ready 1/2 kg ripe Pumpkin
  2. Get 1/2 Cup sugar
  3. Prepare 1/2 Cup jaggery
  4. Make ready 1/2 Cup grated coconut
  5. Get 1 Cup Tuta Basmati Rice (soaked in water for 1 hr)
  6. Prepare 1 Teaspoon baking powder
  7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  8. Take 2-3 pieces chopped litchi
  9. Make ready 6-7 pieces Almonds
  10. Prepare 1/2 Bowl Sooji (semolina)
  11. Prepare 1/2 Cup Water
  12. Take 2 Tablespoons Deshi Ghee
  13. Get 2 Teaspoons milk made
  14. Make ready 1 Medium Size Banana leaf
  15. Take as required for garnishing few pieces of coconut slices,
  16. Take as required Almonds and litchi

Add rice powder slowly and stir it continuously. Make a little thick (neither watery nor tight) batter and cook it in low flame. The poda pitha recipe that I have used is from my father's family. There are other versions which use pumpkin puree (Kakharu Poda Pitha) , or cook the batter before baking it (Janta Poda Pitha).

Steps to make KAKHARU PODA PITHA (pumpkin cake):
  1. First step is to wash pumpkin and then remove it's skin then cut it into medium pieces and then take a pressure cooker and cook it by adding little water to it and wait for 4 to 5 whistle. Turn off the gas.
  2. Wait for 5 to 6 mins the gas will release by it's own from the pressure cooker. Now transfer that batter to a mixing bowl and cool it completely and add there Semolina and raw soaked rice(drain all water 💦) and grind it together all to get a fine and sooth paste.
  3. Note: Don't add extra water 💦 to it.
  4. Now add grated coconut, ghee, sugar, chopped litchi, milk made and mix it well. Cover the batter and rest it for 1 and 1/2 hr.
  5. After 1and 1/2 hr bring that paste and add there baking powder and baking soda and stir it in one direction.
  6. Now again switch on the gas flame a place a pressure cooker set there a banana leaf and apply some ghee on the leaf both top and bottom and pour the batter to it and cover the lid but remove it's load and cook it or bake it for 1 hr in a slow flame. After an hr check it with the help of a tooth pick. Cool it for 15 mins.
  7. To remove the cake or Pitha 🥮 easily place a big sige mouth open vessel and pour 3 glasses of water and place that pressure cooker there for 4 to 5 mins and with the help of your ✋ hand remove take out the cake. It's ready now 😘😄❤️❤️ serve and enjoy….
  8. Note: You can adjust the sweetness according to your taste
  9. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

The poda pitha recipe that I have used is from my father's family. There are other versions which use pumpkin puree (Kakharu Poda Pitha) , or cook the batter before baking it (Janta Poda Pitha). The simplest recipe would probably consist of the rice batter, jaggery, grated coconut, and maybe be a hint of cardamom. Add the mustard paste and saute. It is prepared by dipping the pumpkin flower in a batter of either gram flour (besan) or that of the rice flour and then shallow frying them on a tawa.

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