CookingDouble-layer bhapa pitha: a simple steamed rice cake with coconut and jaggery
Instead of the usual bhapa pitha, layer rice flour twice with grated coconut and jaggery and steam for 20 minutes for a soft, crumbly double-layer winter cake.
CookingInstead of the usual bhapa pitha, layer rice flour twice with grated coconut and jaggery and steam for 20 minutes for a soft, crumbly double-layer winter cake.
CookingChapti pitha, a thin savoury pancake of rice flour, onion, chilli, coriander, ginger and turmeric cooked on a tawa, is eaten hot with tea on winter evenings; the recipe as published in January 2026, with background on pitha, date-palm molasses and tea.
CookingDry rice flour soaked for half an hour in lukewarm water, mixed with gur, plain flour and salt and fried at medium heat makes poa pitha without soaking rice, in a recipe Jagonews24 published on 6 January 2026.