Ignite Your Taste Buds with Bihu Delicacy: Til Pitha Recipe

Описание: Here’s the recipe for Til Pitha which is an Assamese dish. This dish can be enjoyed for breakfast or as a snack. Til Pitha or Tilor Pitha is traditionally prepared during special occasions and major festivals, like Bihu. It tastes great with some Assam chai or Masala Chai........ Til Pitha is made from coarsely ground, soaked rice spread over a hot pan and stuffed with jaggery and sesame mixture in the middle. They look like a spring roll, lightly toasted to get a crispy texture.The Til Pitha recipe is divided into two parts – rice wrapper and sesame jaggery filling. The filling recipe is quite easy to prepare. Of course, the trickiest part is preparing the rice wrapper in which the filling is rolled. To make crispy pithas, the rice used has to be glutinous and sticky. The traditional recipe asks for Bora Saul rice, which is pounded into a dry powder with a mortar and pestle (called Ural or Dheki in Assamese). Although, I couldn’t find a large enough mortar and pestle so I stuck by my electric grinder. To make the rice wrapper, soak the glutinous rice for 8/9 hours and drain the excess water. Do not dry all the water off (definitely don’t leave the rice to dry in the sun). Grind the rice into a fine powder and set it aside.

Tips:

While grinding the rice, make sure it does not become too hot, else the rice will lose its stickiness and the pithas will fall apart on the pan.

So, some suggest that after grinding the soaked rice into a fine powder, pour it into a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap until use. But since we believe in saying no to plastic, you can substitute it with a damp muslin clothes..Another tip is to not wait until you have ground all the rice. Try grinding the rice in batches and layer them into the bowl as you go. So grind one batch, and pour it into the bowl. Move to grind another batch, pour it over the previous batch and so on.

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