How to make Daal Pitha
How to make the Daal Stuffing
Daal Pitha
Ingredients
Raw Rice flour – 1 cup
Water – 1 & ½ cup
Salt to taste
For the Stuffing
Chana daal – 1 cup (soaked in water for 3 hrs)
Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
Garlic – 3 -4 big cloves
Green Chilli – 3 long
Salt – as per taste
Oil – as required for greasing hands and steaming vessel + 1 tbsp for seasoning
How to make the Daal Pitha
For the Outer Rice layer
Heat a pan with water with salt added. When the water starts boiling, simmer and add rice flour and quickly stir everything together. Even if there are lumps, it’s alright.
Cook till everything blends together and keep it covered.
When it cools down, take it and with your hands knead it to a soft dough. Always keep it covered with a muslin cloth so that the dough doesn’t get dried up.
For the Chana Dal stuffing
Wash and soak the chana dal in water for atleast 3 -4 hrs. Once it is soaked well. drain the water and take it in a mixer.
Add chopped green chilies, garlic, salt and cumin seeds. Grind it to a paste, making sure the dal is not complete a paste, you can let it be a bit coarse.
Heat a pan with a tsp oil, saute the ground dal mix and cook it for couple minutes, making sure the stuffing is not burnt but cooked well. The paste should still be moist.
To make the Pithas
Divide the dough into equal balls, with greased hands, Flatten the balls, with sides thin and centre thicker, place the dal mixture and enclose it completely.
Fold it to make gujiya/kajjikaya like shape. Work the seam with oiled hands so as to get smooth edges. Or you can make it as Kozhukattai
Steam these pithas in a greased steamer till the daal filling gets cooked and knife comes out clean.
Take out the pithas from the steamer and let cool.
These can be served as such once it is cooled to handle. Or you can cut through them and serve as bite size pieces.
Notes:
You can saute these in tadka of oil, jeera and serve with Tomato chutney or Green chutney.
The similarities this recipe has with other states, can be directed to the Ulundhu Kozhukattai made in Tamil Nadu
And very much like the sweet Kudumulu or Kozhukattai
Roasted Tomato Chutney
Ingredients Needed:
Tomatoes – 1 big
Onions – 1 medium
Green chilies – 3 -4 medium
Salt to taste
Oil – 1 tsp
Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
How to make the Tomato chutney
Wash and pat dry the tomato. Grease it with oil. Over open flame, roast it well. Once it cools down, remove the charred skin.
Finely chop the tomatoes, along with green chilies, onions, coriander leaves.
In a bowl, take all the ingredients and mix well with hand, blending the oil, salt into the vegetables.
Serve it with Daal Pitha.
20 comments
Good to know about their serving style. I too made daal pithas but a different recipe. These look nice and if they are judged by an authentic person your day is made.
roasting the tomatoes on gas – that looks so difficult. did you not get the juices out while doing this?
And this pitha is so much like the uppu kozhukkataai..
delicious and yumm
i saw the pics on FB and loved them…i liked the filling more and would love to try them..good you had find a guide for these lesser known states
The filling is something makes me drool, daal pithaa with roasted tomato chutney looks fantabulous.
I too made the same pithas with channa dhal stuffing,tastes great with coriander chutney..The tomato chutney sounds inviting and must be a flavorful one…
Enjoyed the story of how you got the recipe. The pitha and chutney look great.
same story everywhere.. we always make backup dishes for every dish so that everyone has something. but these dal pithas look delicious and I love the roasted tomato chutney
This so much resembles our savoury kozhukattai. The combo looks so inviting..
This resembles the savory kozhukattai as you mentioned. I am just surprised to notice more and more how a dish can be made differently across the country, during this marathon.
Love these steamed pithas! These steamed varieties all sound so similar yet taste so different , right?
Love it Valli. Like I said these are missing from my menu today. I want to try the tomato chutney too.
Fantastic, I can hardly wait to try this recipe!!! Pitha and chutney looks so good..
Lucky that you have friends who share authentic recipes and dishes. Awesome. Pithas look great and I love the dal filling. Tomato chutney sounds yumm.
Daal Pithas sound similar to one of the preparations made for Vinayaka chuathi. I can't remember what those are called, but quite smaller in size. Anyway, pithas looks great and tomato chutney is similar to tomato chokha recipe from Bihar.
So nice that you had someone to guide you and of course this looks just like our kozukattai. The tomato chutney sounds nice and both together is a yum combo!
Roasting the tomatoes gives it so much more flavor. The combo looks like a hit 🙂
Looks very similar to our kozhukattai. It is good to have someone to share authentic recipes of their place. I m loving the simplicity of the chutney too!!!
such wonderful colleagues you have valli who shared a delicious dish 🙂 Daal pitha looks super tempting and you have made them so well 🙂 Very nice to know the extra infos about their serving style :)very well paired with tomato chutney , I want them right away 🙂
Dal Pitha with chutney must have tasted good…nice entry !
During makar sakranti in the villages of Jharkhand prepare an authentic dish.. Gur pitha. Hard to make and also delicious.