Lord Jagannath temple is one of the famous temple in India. It is located in Puri in the state of Odisha. My hubby worked in Odisha for 10 year (before transferring to chennai), so I got an opportunity to visit Puri Jaganath Temple many times and to know the importance of Rath Yatra & Maha Prasad offered inside the temple. Today Jagannath Rath Yatra started, so I thought to post famous Odisha special recipes. I gathered some information about Rath Yatra, follow the link to know more about Rath Yatra🙏.
About Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra
Today I am posting Odisha special Suji Kakara Pitha. It is sweet recipe which is crispy outside and stuffed with sweetened coconut. It is easy to prepare with less ingredients. I first tasted it in Talcher(Odisha). I had it as breakfast along with bara(vada) and ghuguni. It was very tasty 😋, missing those days where I had lots of fun with my friend shruthi 😍. Okay I am not going back 😉, let's start the recipe..
Odisha special Suji Kakara Pitha
Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves - 10 to 12 kakaras
Recipe Category: Odisha Special
Recipe Cuisine: Odisha
Author: Aruna
Ingredients
Suji/semolina/upma rava/ - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups
Coconut - 1 cup(scraped/grated)
Sugar - 1/2 cup + 2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp(or 2 pinches)
Cardamom /elachi powder - 2 tsp
Cashew nuts & raisins - as per wish
Ghee - 2tsp(optional)
Oil - to deep fry
Instructions
1) Take a pan add coconut and sugar.
2) Mix the above on low flame till the consistency become thick, then add cardamom powder and mix it for 2 more minutes. And take it into plate.
3) Now take a pan add 2 cups of water, 1/4 tsp Salt, 2 tsp sugar.
4) Add suji in hot water and mix it well without any lumps.
5) Mix the suji well, it will take 2 - 3 minutes.
6) Transfer the suji on plate and spread it. Let it cool a bit.
7) Add ghee to the dough.
8) Knead the dough well without any lumps.
9) Grease you hands with oil and pinch small amount of dough
10) Flatten the suji dough with your palm, it should be thick in the middle and thin in corners. So that the stuffing would not leak in oil. You can stuff only coconut mixture or coconut + dry fruits.
11) Fill the coconut stuff in the middle and grease the corners with water. (don't grease more water). Here I am stuffing only coconut for one sujj ball(just to show you).
12) Close all the corners properly like shown below.
13) Give the dough small ball shape.
13) Then press in the middle of the suji ball and flatten it and keep it in plate.
14) Repeat the above process, now I am adding cashew nut pieces and raisins along with coconut mixture, close it and give shape.
15) Repeat the process for remaining suji.
16) Heat oil in a pan for deep fry, add suji balls one by one carefully.
17) Fry the kakara's well by turning both sides on medium flames.
18) Once the kakara's turns golden brown on both the sides take it into plate.
19) Repeat the above steps and fry remaing suji balls and take it into bowl.
Yummy, crispy & tasty Suji Kakara Pitha is ready to serve 😋.
You can have it as breakfast or snacks.
Note
◆ Adding dry fruits is optional.
◆ Yo can also prepare plain kakara pitha without any stuff.
◆ You can give any different shapes to the dough like traingle, oval etc.,
Tips
● Dough should be thick in the middle while stuffing coconut.
About Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra
Today I am posting Odisha special Suji Kakara Pitha. It is sweet recipe which is crispy outside and stuffed with sweetened coconut. It is easy to prepare with less ingredients. I first tasted it in Talcher(Odisha). I had it as breakfast along with bara(vada) and ghuguni. It was very tasty 😋, missing those days where I had lots of fun with my friend shruthi 😍. Okay I am not going back 😉, let's start the recipe..
Odisha special Suji Kakara Pitha
Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves - 10 to 12 kakaras
Recipe Category: Odisha Special
Recipe Cuisine: Odisha
Author: Aruna
Ingredients
Suji/semolina/upma rava/ - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups
Coconut - 1 cup(scraped/grated)
Sugar - 1/2 cup + 2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp(or 2 pinches)
Cardamom /elachi powder - 2 tsp
Cashew nuts & raisins - as per wish
Ghee - 2tsp(optional)
Oil - to deep fry
Instructions
1) Take a pan add coconut and sugar.
2) Mix the above on low flame till the consistency become thick, then add cardamom powder and mix it for 2 more minutes. And take it into plate.
3) Now take a pan add 2 cups of water, 1/4 tsp Salt, 2 tsp sugar.
4) Add suji in hot water and mix it well without any lumps.
5) Mix the suji well, it will take 2 - 3 minutes.
6) Transfer the suji on plate and spread it. Let it cool a bit.
7) Add ghee to the dough.
8) Knead the dough well without any lumps.
9) Grease you hands with oil and pinch small amount of dough
10) Flatten the suji dough with your palm, it should be thick in the middle and thin in corners. So that the stuffing would not leak in oil. You can stuff only coconut mixture or coconut + dry fruits.
11) Fill the coconut stuff in the middle and grease the corners with water. (don't grease more water). Here I am stuffing only coconut for one sujj ball(just to show you).
12) Close all the corners properly like shown below.
13) Give the dough small ball shape.
13) Then press in the middle of the suji ball and flatten it and keep it in plate.
14) Repeat the above process, now I am adding cashew nut pieces and raisins along with coconut mixture, close it and give shape.
15) Repeat the process for remaining suji.
16) Heat oil in a pan for deep fry, add suji balls one by one carefully.
17) Fry the kakara's well by turning both sides on medium flames.
18) Once the kakara's turns golden brown on both the sides take it into plate.
Yummy, crispy & tasty Suji Kakara Pitha is ready to serve 😋.
You can have it as breakfast or snacks.
Note
◆ Adding dry fruits is optional.
◆ Yo can also prepare plain kakara pitha without any stuff.
◆ You can give any different shapes to the dough like traingle, oval etc.,
Tips
● Dough should be thick in the middle while stuffing coconut.
● Kneading the dough without any lumps is an important to get good kakara's.
Hope this recipe helps you in preparing crispy and tasty suji kakara pitha.
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