Poda Pitha a delicious odia sweet dish

Poda Pitha or Baked cake in Pressure Cookeer.

Ingredients Required:

• 300 gm Arua Chaula(Rice)
• 150 gm biri dali(Black gram) 
• 1/2 cup of finely grated coconut (fresh nadia kora)
• 20 pieces of(Nadia Khanda) thin coconut slices.
• 250 gm sugar as per your taste (chini)
• 25gm chopped ginger into small pieces
• 1 cup of Khanda Kaju pieces
• 1 table spoon desi ghee or refined oil 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt as per your taste
• 1/2 teaspoon baking sodha powder

Poda Pitha

Preparation Method:

1. Soak the Arua Chaula and biri dali in water and put the rice and dal in separate bowls for 4 to 5 hours hours.
2. Wash them properly,and put the black gram(Biri dalli) with water in the mixer to form a fine batter.
3. Do the same with Arua chawla 
4. Mixed both the rice batters and black gram batters and add little bit baking powder for shoftness, coconut slices, grated coconut, chopped ginger, salt, sugar & cashew nuts.
5. Mix all the ingredients with a proper way and keep it aside for 2 to 3 hour.
6. In Medium flame heat the pressure cooker and put a thin layer of vegetable oil or Ghee on  the inner surface of the cooker.
7. Now poured the mixed batter into the cooker and close the lid , don't give the whistle
8. Place the pressure cooker in simmer flame for half an hour.
9. Off the falme and put the cooker comes to the normal temperature and take out the delicious bakery pitha carefully, and cut it into different shapes and serve.     

Preparation of Rabadi at home.

Rabadi is an Indian traditional sweet dish.This special dessert is a mixture of cream milk, malai with sugar and cardamom powder. Specially this sweet dish prepare on the time of holi festival.

Rabadi Preparation:

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 110 min

Rabadi Indian Sweet dessert

Main Ingredients:

1. milk
2. cream milk - 2 liters
3. Sugar - 1/4 cup as per your taste
4. Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
5. Saffron - 6-8 strands 
6. Pista and almonds
7. Almonds - 10-12, 
8. Rose water - few drops as per your choice

Processing:

1. chop the pista and almonds into small pieces and keep aside.
2. Boil the cream milk in a large container with a high flame. when the milk boil, reduce the  flame to low and allow to simmer.
3. Keep scraping the sides of the vessel and keep steering that the milk will be thickening.
4. After 1 hours, the milk will be reduced  to a thick mass. Add sugar as per your taste and half of the chopped nuts and mix it well. Allow the sugar to dissolve and continue to simmer the mixture till it reaches a third of the original quantity. Add cardamom powder, rose water and saffron and mix well.
5. Turn off the flame and allow to come to room temperature. 
6. Keep to a serving bowl.
7. Garnish the rabadi with remaining chopped nuts.
8. Serve it chill.