Doodh Pitha Recipe: Market rasmalai will be forgotten, eat Bihar’s ‘Doodh Pitha’ in winter, here is the recipe

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The taste of Bihar is liked not only in the country but all over the world. While litti and sherbet made of Sattu help in keeping the body cool and boosting energy in summers, Dudh Pitha made in winters is a wonderful comfort dessert. After eating this, you will forget the rasmalai of the confectioner’s place, because it has the taste of mawa along with milk. Nuts add crunchiness while the layer of pitha made from rice flour dissolves in the mouth. In simple steps, you will prepare this dessert in hardly 40 minutes. This is the best traditional dessert to serve to family as well as guests in the winter season.

When it comes to the traditional food of Bihar, people remember spicy spicy things like Litti-Chokha, Dal-Bhat, Aloo Bhujia, but once you make this Doodh Pitha and eat it, you will become a fan of the sweets here too. So let’s know the recipe of winter special Bihar’s Doodh Pitha.

What are the ingredients required?

To make Doodh Pitha, you need 1 cup rice flour, half cup mawa i.e. khoya (about 150 grams), 1 fourth cup powdered sugar (Bura), half cup grated dry coconut, 4 green cardamoms, one spoon chironji, one spoon raisins, 10-12 almonds, 8-10 cashews, same number of pistachios can also be taken. 1 liter milk, 1/3 cup sugar will be required more for milk base. Two spoons of desi ghee. 4-5 threads of saffron (optional, aroma and color is good, you can use food color if you want) Now know the step by step recipe.

Doodh Pitha Recipe

  1. Doodh Pitha, made in Bihar and Jharkhand especially during winters, is a very tasty melt-in-the-mouth dessert.
  2. First heat the water and then knead the rice flour into a soft dough, but it should not be wet.
  3. Now take out mawa or khoya in a plate and apart from sugar, add some raisins, cashews, almonds, pistachios and cardamom powder to it.
  4. Save some dry fruits and nuts, chironji, cardamom powder separately. These are later used to add to the milk base.
  5. Apply desi ghee on your hands and make small balls of rice flour and press it with a spoon to make a space in which add khoya mixture and make round balls (pitha).
    Bihar Doodh Pitha Recipe

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  6. Now heat the milk and add saffron threads or a pinch of yellow food color dissolved in milk.
  7. Add sugar, grated coconut, saved nuts, raisins, chironji and cardamom powder to the milk. After this let it boil for 1 minute.
  8. When the milk boils, add the prepared rice flour balls with mawa stuffing into it. Cook the milk until it is properly condensed into a ball.
  9. In this way, your winter comfort and tasty desert, Doodh Pitha of Bihar, is prepared which tastes very tasty.
  10. You can add a little custard powder to milk which will thicken it. Along with the texture, the taste will also improve.
  11. You can increase or decrease the amount of sweets as per your taste and the amount of nuts and seeds can also be increased.

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