For the second week of Blogging Marathon #25, I selected North East Indian Cuisine. There are 7 states which come under North East India. They are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. I recently came across a face book page on Assamese cuisine. When going through the recipes, there was this sweet called as the Mohura Pitha which resembled Kolukkattai from Tamil Nadu. The shape was different but the preparation was the same. As I am an ardent fan of kozhukkattai, I tried it out yesterday for our evening snack. The shape of this pitha is like the spindle used in weaving and so the name mohura pitha. I used the ordinary rice flour and made these pithas. They tasted so delicious and PK liked it a lot.
Recipe Source: Assamese Recipes Makes 12 Mohura Pithas Ingredients: Rice Flour-1 cup Warm Water-1 cup + 2-3 tbs Grated Coconut-2/3 cup Sugar-1/4 cup or according to your taste Cardamom Powder-1/4 tsp Procedure: 1. Mix coconut, sugar and cardamom powder in a bowl and keep it aside. 2. In a bowl add rice flour and warm water and make a soft and pliable dough. 3. Divide it into 12 equal portions and roll each into a ball. 4. Keep it covered while shaping a pitha. 5. Take a ball and gently press it and shape it into a bowl. 6. Take a tsp of filling and keep it inside the bowl. 7. Make a half circle by pressing the sides of the circle together. 8. Shape it into a spindle. 9. Shape the remaining dough into pithas. 10. In a pot boil water. 11. Add the prepared pithas and let them cook for 10 minutes. 12. Remove the pithas from water with a slotted ladle and place it on a plate. 13. Serve when still warm.
Mix the filling.
Prepare a soft dough.
Divide into 12 equal parts.
Shape a ball into a bowl.
Place the filling.
Close the edges and shape it into a spindle.
Heat water and add the pithas when water starts boiling.
Remove it onto a plate after 10 minutes.
Serve them when still warm.
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Wow….koos delicious… 🙂
lovely sweet just like kozhukkatai.
looks yum.shld try boiling them .
yummy n delicious..
Oh wow…super yummy delicious… 🙂
This looks so delicious! Something similar to the kozhukattais!
I was looking through the same FB page as I selected this category for next week – these look so yummy and delicious!!!
Yummy…looks good.
Looks delicious, love the water bath.
I bet it tasted yumm.love it.
Looks very attractive, happy to learn this pithas from you.
Instead of steaming , cooking in water ?? Interesting!
Interesting recipes, will the store bought rice flour works well for this recipe?
Yummy looking sweet.
Our south Indian version and this one vary only in shape. :)I too am a fan of these and can guess how yummy they must have been.
Looks fantastic Gayathri, I am going to enjoy your choice of recipes..this does look so much like our own kozhukkattasis right
Looks so yummy and your clicks are so nice…
Great Recipe….look fabulous and perfectly done
Simply Tadka
Can I take your pic and receipe for my video
Sorry, please don’t use my photos for your video.