Dear Friends,
On 5th Feb 2022, we celebrated sarawati puja. it is the Birth day of Goddess saraswati. We worshiped Goddess Saraswati on that day. Goddess Sarada or Saraswati is one of the goddess of Hindu culture. Goddess Saraswati is the wife of the one of the most promising Hindu God Brahma. In the eastern part of the India, almost all Hindu people celebrate Goddess Saraswati Puja. Basically all children worship saraswati in the schools, colleges and all other educational institutes. Generally we celebrate Saraswati Puja every year on the day of Basanta Panchami or Sri Panchami. According to Hindu calendar, we celebrate Basanta panchami in each year on the panchami thithi, on the 5th day of sukla pakshaya, in the month of Magha (spring). As per Hindu mythology, Goddess Saraswati was born on that day. Generally we worship Goddess Saraswati for learning, music and the art. As we believe, once we worship her, we will gain the knowledge and wisdom.
On the occasion of Saraswati puja, we prepared Arisa pitha(rice cake) for offering the prassad. It is our traditional custom to use this pithas as prasad. We also use different kind of fruits, and sweets as a prasad. we choos this pithas, because we can easily store for many days without help of any refrigerator. It is a delicious sweet dish. Once you eat, you will love it.
So here we shared the process of making of Arisa Pitha (Jaggery Rice Cake) and the ingredients were required to it.
There are many ingredients but the main ingredients are raw rice, jaggery(guda), white Till and Cooking Oil.
Jaggery Rice Cake
Rice (500 gms) soaked in water for 5 to 6 hrs
Water removed from the rice with the help of steel pot chalni
Rice grinded with the help of Mixture Grinder
The rice flours polished with the help of steel chalni
Rice flour were Collected in a pan
We took 250 to 300 grams of jaggery (guda)
50 grams of white till
Jaggery cooked for 5 to 7 minutes in low flame for getting its color golden
Put white till inside the cooked Jaggery
Once white till is mixed with jaggery, we put rice flour to cooked Jaggery
Mix it for 5 to 7 Minutes
Mixture of Jaggery, White Till and Rice Flour
Making small pieces of round shaped as per your need
Putting Tissue paper in a pot , where we have to put the Arisa pitha
Took 1 litre of rice band oil for frying the cake
Put deep frying pan on the gas stove
Drop the oil inside the frying pan
Heat the oil for 3 to 4 minutes in high flame
Round shaped Mixture are ready for fry
Drop the round shaped mixture in the hot oil and fried it for 2 minutes
Changed the side of the round shaped pitha (cake)
Make it golden color or little bit crispies
Collect the pitha above the tissues paper, so that the oil should soaked by tissue paper properly
It is a traditional sweet dish of Odisha. Hope all will like this dish and reciepe.