Name: Chitau pitha recipe by Ankita Dash at BetterButter
Prep time: 480 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 485 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: White rice : 1 cup; Grated coconut : 1 &1/2 cup; Salt to taste; Little bit of oil

ABOUT Chitau pitha RECIPE

Chitau pitha is an odia recipe. It is a variety of rice pancake which is made during chitalagi amabasya or sravan amavasya.

Instructions

Wash the rice properly in water and let it soak in water for 4 to 5 hours.
In the mean while grate the coconut.
After 5 hrs drain the water from rice and grind it with coconut and make a smooth batter.
Add salt as per taste.
Leave it for 2 to 3 hours for fermentation.
After 3 hour again mix the batter for one more time
Take a bowl full of water and put a thick cloth thread in it.
Heat a karai in gas in medium flame.
Grease it with refined oil or ghee by the help of a wet tissue paper.
Pour a ladle full of batter in it and immidietly cover it with a small bowl.
Then squeeze the cloth thread and put in the side of the small bowl.
After 3 minutes, lower the flame and remove the tread and bowl.
Gently remove the pitha with the help of a spatula.
Serve it hot with milk or sugar and ghee.

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