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First Step:
Ingredients:
Rice (parboiled) 1 cup
Rice
flour 2 tbsp
Liquid
milk 1/3 cup
Salt as needed
For the
filling:
Coconut(fresh
grated)
Like meat,
instead,date molasses from silver date palm.(you can may use)
Second
Step:
Method:
First soak
the rice overnight or at least 5/6 hours. And now drain the water and let the
rice drained out well.
Then grind
it in a grinder or coffee grinder. And add the store bought rice flour with it.
And now mix
some water and milk. Please don’t take too much. Then around 1/3 cup.And add salt, sprinkle water ,milk in a
way that the flour must seem wet, not dry at all. It should look like batter. Don’t
add the liquid at the time. Need not that much liquid. If the flour binds together if you some of
them in your palm, the flour is ready. Must not be dry that it doesn’t hold together . If the flour
is ready, then the pitha will break apart.
Then now
sieve the flour through the strainer. Take 2 pieces of clean cotton cloth and 2
small bowls.
And now in
the bowl spread some flour, then add the coconut and jaggery. Now cover it with
another layer of flour. Please don’t press too much or else, will break down
while placing it for steaming. And cover it with a piece of cloth and put in
the steamer. Now tap the bowl slightly., so that you can remove the bowl
easily. And remove the bowl and cover the pitha with the remaining ends of the
cloth.
Then steam
for 5/6 minutes. Prepare the same way using the other bowl and cloth. Please
you remove one pitha and place another. For steaming I don’t have that specific
utensil for making vapa pitha. And any steamer will do. You can do more than
one at a time. Some times I just take a small saucepan with water and place a
large metal strainer or large slotted spoon over it, so that it covers the face
of the utensil. And boil the water and steam the vapa pitha on it. You must put
the lid on while steaming.
Finally
serve this vapa pitha any decorated plate or bowl.
