Bhapa Pithe
Steamed rice flour cakes with coconut-jaggery filling wrapped in banana leaf. Poush Parbon winter festival specialty.
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Ingredients
- Rice Flour — 250 g
- salt — 2 g
- Fresh Coconut — 200 g
- Water — 200 g
- Banana Leaf — 20 g
- Cardamom Powder — 1 g
- Date Jaggery (Khejur Gur) — 180 g
Method
- Cook grated coconut and date jaggery in a pan, stirring, until sticky.
- Add cardamom powder. Mix and let the filling cool.
- Mix rice flour with salt. Sprinkle water and rub until it feels like damp sand.
- Cut banana leaf into small squares and wipe them clean.
- Put a layer of rice flour on a leaf, add filling, cover with more flour.
- Fold the leaf to close the cake.
- Steam the cakes over boiling water until firm.
- Unwrap and serve warm.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Bhapa Pithe?
- 303 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 45 min — 25 min prep, 20 min cooking.