Podo pitha

Ingredients

1. Rice- 1 ½ cups
2. Biri (Black gram)/udat dal- 1 cup
3. Jaggery/ Sugar – 500 grams
4. Cardamom (powder)- 1/2 tsp
5.  Black pepper powder- ½ tsp
6. Salt – 1 teaspoon
7. Coconut – ½ of coconut(grinded) and few cut pieces.
8.  Ground nut-15 or 20 seeds

Method of preparation:

1. Soak  Rice and  Biri  for 2 hrs and then grind to a fine paste.
2. Add salt + grinded   and few cut pieces of coconut+sugar+black pepper and cardamom  powder+ ground nut.
3. Mix well.
4. Pour the dough to kadei  smeared with little oil.
5. Bake  it for 30 mins in a very slim flame.
6. To check for pitha readiness, insert toothpick or fork. If the dough does not stick, its ready.
7. Allow the pitha to cool before cutting into pieces.

step - 1 (grinded paste of  soaked rice and black gram+ all  components added )

 step - 2(After baking in a kadei  for 20 /30  mis and removed )

 step - 3(Ready to serve)