How To Make Poda Pitha In Oven

In a pressure cooker baking chena poda will take about 25 to 35 minutes.

How to make poda pitha in oven. Earlier clay pan palhama was used to bake the poda pitha with traditional chuli chulha you can use oven also but you will miss the taste. The earthen pot used to covered with banana leaves. Cover three layer of banana leaves light the firewood and cook. In odisha chena poda is baked in sal leaves which gives chhena poda a distinct flavor.

50 gm chopped ginger. Put the baking dish in the oven and bake for 45 mins. Do the same with rice too but keep in mind that the batter should be coarse and not as fine as the batter of black gram. If the dough does not stick its ready.

Spread ash on the inner bottom of kadai then put three layer of banana leaves. Since i had banana leaves i used banana leaves to bake. Remove from the oven and allow it to cool. To brown the crust and also for even heating well lit charcoal and.

Poda in oriya means charred or burnt. Poda pitha it is very delicious and easy to make it is also known as urad dal cake biri chaula poda pitha poda pitha in oven rice cake raja sankranti special pitha pana so learn today how to make. Put the black gram with water in the grinder and form a fine batter. Pour the paste into the tray and keep it in the oven.

Pre heat oven for 10 mins and grease it with ghee. The traditional way of making poda pitha in a make shift chullah in which charcoal and dried cow dung cake is used as fuel is now a thing of the past. Though you can even skip banana leaves and simply bake in a pan. 150 gm black gram.

Cook on high for 30 mins. 1 cup finely scrubbed coconut. Allow the pitha to cool before cutting into pieces. How to make poda pitha soak the rice and black gram in water in separate bowls for about 2 hours.

Spread the smooth dough. Modern day households would rather use a pressure cooker and the gas chullah even though it means being deprived of the unique feel of the traditional kind of taste and flavor that poda pitha. When its colour is golden brown the poda pitha is ready to eat. A needle inserted should come out clean.

Heat the oven at 300 degrees farenheit. Reduce to medium for 30 mins. In the olden days poda pitha used to be made in charcoal and wood stoves where the dough used to be poured in an earthen baking dish and put inside the chuli stove. You can bake chenna poda in an oven and even in a pressure cooker.

10 15 small pieces of thin coconut slices. So i have made a chula also for baking. To check for pitha readiness insert toothpick or fork.