Ingredients:
Rice- 500 grams
Biri (Black gram)- 500 grams
Jaggery/ Sugar - 500 grams
Green Cardamom (powder)- 1 teaspoon
Salt - 1 teaspoon
Coconut - 1
Method:
Soak rice and biri for 5 hours and then grind to a fine paste.
Add salt to the dough and let it stand overnight.
Break coconut into 2 halves. Grate one half and cut the other half into small pieces.
Add all the coconuts, jaggery, cardamom powder to the dough.
Mix well.
Pour the dough to a baking dish smeared with little oil.
Heat the oven at 300 degrees farenheit. Put the baking dish in the oven and bake for 45 mins.
To check for pitha readiness, insert toothpick or fork. If the dough does not stick, its ready.
Allow the pitha to cool before cutting into pieces.




September 24th, 2010 at 3:15 am
i remember my mother in law, its great………
April 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Delicious, yummi and ………….
January 13th, 2008 at 4:26 am
would you ship poda pitha to illinois
October 15th, 2007 at 2:48 am
It’s a real authentic oriya dish which me n my family cherish a lot..
October 13th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Thanks for the recipe. The method of preparation was very beautifully represented.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Great!!!!!!!!!
I need Lau podopitha recipe. Can someone help!!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:18 am
This is one of my FAVORITE pitha ….i m surely going to try this…..thanks Sarita …