Arisa Pitha

Description

 * Ethnicity - Orissa,East Indian
 * Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner

Ingredients

 * 1 cup: Good quality rice
 * 1/2 kg: jaggery
 * 4 no: cinnamon (powdered)
 * 200 gm: vegetable oil or ghee
 * ½ tsp: salt

Directions

 * 1) Boil 2 ltrs water in a wide mouth pan, add Sugar,salt,cinnamon powder and 1 tbsp ghee
 * 2) Pour semolina slowly and stir continuously, cover the pan and reduce the flame
 * 3) Cook till it absorbs the water completely (to the consistency of chappati). Let it cool.
 * 4) Knead it properly to make a smooth dough.
 * 5) Heat a pan, add coconut and Sugar, fry till the coconut turns golden brown.
 * 6) Make small balls of semolina dough, roll it and stuff it with the fried coconut.
 * 7) Deep fry till golden brown.