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.