Assamese Style Ghila Pitha Recipe (Sweetened Rice Fritters Recipe)

July 9, 2017

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Assamese Style Ghila Pitha Recipe (Sweetened Rice Fritters Recipe)
Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 30 M|Total: 40 M
Makes:4 Servings
Meal:Snack
Cuisine:Assamese

Assamese Style Ghila Pitha Recipe (Rice Fritters Recipe) is a wonderful snack or a dessert that is lightly sweetened with jaggery and flavored with cardamom made in rice batter. The addition of cardamom and lemon rind is a twist with our experimentation, to enhance the flavor of the dish.

Serve the Ghila Pitha as a tea time snack or as a dessert after a good lunch.

If you are looking for more Assamese Recipes here are some: 

  1. Aloo Konir Dom Recipe (Assamese Egg & Potato Curry)
  2. Sandah Guri Recipe (Assamese Roasted Rice Flour Porridge)
  3. Assamese Sweet Kordoi Recipe

Ingredients

    2 cups Rice, soaked in water
    2 tablespoons Cooked rice, to help bind
    1/2 cup Jaggery
    1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)
    1 teaspoon Lemon zest
    1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
    Oil, for cooking

Instructions for Assamese Style Ghila Pitha Recipe (Sweetened Rice Fritters Recipe)

    1

    To begin making Assamese Style Ghila Pitha Recipe, soak the rice in water for 2 to 3 hours. Once soaked, drain the water completely and pat dry.

    2

    Grind the rice into a flour like mixture, it will be a little coarse.

    3

    Melt the jaggery in 1/4 cup of water and keep aside.

    4

    In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground rice flour along with the cooked rice, jaggery water, baking powder, cardamom powder, lemon zest and baking powder.

    5

    Form a dough like consistency to make Ghila Pitha. The dough should not be too hard not too soft, just enough to hold and put in a kuzhi paniyaram pan.

    6

    Heat a Kuzhi Paniyaram pan and add a few drops of oil into each one of the cavities. 

    7

    Grease your palms with oil and form small oval balls. Flatten the Ghila Pitha a little and place them in the kuzhi paniyaram pan. Fry on both sides initially on medium flame until cooked through and also golden brown from all sides.

    8

    Once done, remove the Ghila Pitha from the pan and proceed the same way with the remaining batter.

    9

    Serve the Ghila Pitha as a tea time snack or as a dessert after a good lunch. 



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