Sujir Pitha

A SUGARY COCONUT DESSERT

It is a kind of pitha(dessert) of Odisha prepared with Suji/Semolina and coconut stuffing. Very delicious recipe must try at your home

30 Minutes

Indian

185

In a pan heat one cup of water. Add a pinch of salt to the water and also add two teaspoons of sugar.
Add ¼ teaspoon fennel seeds and ½ teaspoon clarified butter to the water which is getting heated, close the lid, and bring the water to a boil.
To the boiling water add ½ cup of fine semolina, keep stirring while you add the semolina.No lumps should be formed. Cook for five minutes. Take it out in a bowl and allow it to cool.
In another pan add ½ cup freshly grated coconut and quarter cup sugar and keep the flame on low mix them and keep stirring till sugar melts.
Add 1 teaspoon chopped cashews, almonds, and raisins. ½ teaspoon cardamon powder and ½ teaspoon black pepper powder.
Once the dough has cooled down, add some clarified butter to your hands and knead the dough into a soft and silky dough.
Divide small portions of the dough and make a small hole at the center. Fill in the stuffing prepared in step 7 and cover the stuffing well inside the dough.
Heat oil in a cauldron. Add in the stuffed semolina pitha in hot oil and cool them well till they turn crisp brown on either side. Cook them on medium-high flame. Remove them on tissue paper and serve them hot.