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Ranga Alur Pithe

Mar-10-2017
Rita Arora
20 minutes
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
6 People
Serves
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ABOUT Ranga Alur Pithe RECIPE

It's a Bengali festive dessert.

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Easy
  • Festive
  • Indian
  • Frying
  • Dessert
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 6

  1. For the outer layer -
  2. Sweet potato (1 cup boiled and mashed)
  3. 4 tbsp all purpose flour
  4. 2 tbsp rice flour
  5. For the stuffing -
  6. 1 cup grated fresh coconut
  7. 1/2 cup Powdered Jaggery
  8. For the Syrup -
  9. 6 tbsp sugar
  10. 6 tbsp Jaggery, grated
  11. 1 1/4 cup water
  12. 1/8 tsp Cardamom powder

Instructions

  1. Combine the coconut and jaggery in a pan and let the jaggery dissolves completely.Cook on a medium flame.
  2. Stir continuously until you get a thick mixture.When the mixture thickens, remove from the flame and let it cool. Divide it into 9–10 equal portions and set aside.
  3. Boil the sweet potatoes until soft.Peel and mash them until smooth.
  4. Add the rice flour and maida to the mashed sweet potatoes and knead it well to form a smooth dough.The dough should be soft and non sticky. Divide the dough into 9–10 equal balls and set aside. Flatten the dough ball with your greased palm.
  5. Place the coconut stuffing in the center.
  6. Carefully fold the dough to form a semi circular. Seal the edges.Repeat with remaining dough.Until you deep fry the stuffed dough, keep them covered to avoid drying.
  7. To make the syrup, combine the sugar, jaggery and water in a vessel and stir until jaggery dissolves completely.Add the cardamom powder and let it boil on a low-medium flame for 10 minutes.Turn off the flame and keep the syrup warm.
  8. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.Deep fry the stuffed pulis over a medium flame until golden brown color.Remove from the oil and immediately drop them into the warm syrup.Let them soak in the warm syrup for 5 minutes or sometime.
  9. Serve warm or cold.

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Sheetal Sharma
Mar-17-2017
Sheetal Sharma   Mar-17-2017

Love such festive desserts!

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