RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA
RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, rice cookies or til pitha. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

MAKING THE RICE OUTER LAYER : Wash and soak the rice for an hour. Strain rice and spread it out on a parchment paper or newspaper and let it dry. Rice Cake or Til Pitha, as it is known locally is a household favorite in Assam. The combination of soft chewy outer shell and the sweet sticky sesame filling makes it a perfect relish.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook rice cookies or til pitha using 3 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA:
  1. Take 2 Kgs of Sticky Rice (Bora rice in Assamese)
  2. Prepare 1/2 Kg Black sesame seeds (Til)
  3. Make ready 1 Kg Jaggery (Gur)

You won't have to miss any of the Assamese sweets and treats if you are gluten free. How to make Til Pitha: Soak the rice overnight in water. Drain excess water and grind it carefully. Roast sesame seeds and pound them to remove their outer shell.

Instructions to make RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA:
  1. MAKING THE RICE OUTER LAYER : Wash and soak the rice for an hour. Strain rice and spread it out on a parchment paper or newspaper and let it dry partially
  2. Grind the rice to a very fine powder and then sieve it to get fine rice powder
  3. Now, press the rice powder in the container to make it air tight and cover it with a wet cloth. This layer will be the outer shell of the Pitha.
  4. MAKING THE FILLING : For the filling, wash and strain black sesame seeds, and let it dry. Roast the sesame seeds in a pan or wok until it gives out a nutty fragrance. Coarse grind the sesame seeds.
  5. Melt jaggery in a pan, and add it to the ground sesame seeds. Filling for the pithas is ready.
  6. MAKING THE FINAL VERSION OF SWEET : Heat a tawa to the required temperature
  7. Scoop out some of the prepared rice flour, and spread the rice flour on the pan and press it gently with your fingers.
  8. Now put some sesame filling. Take care not to overfill. Roll up the pithas to your desired shape and gently push it to the edge of the pan and let it finish cooking while you continue making the next pitha.
  9. Enjoy! Serve the cookies with a hot cup of milk tea.

Drain excess water and grind it carefully. Roast sesame seeds and pound them to remove their outer shell. Drain the water, transfer the rice to a blender after allowing it to dry for an hour. Make a smooth rice powder and to give the pitha a nice texture, using a cling wrap cover the rice flour for an hour or so. Til Pitha is an essential part of the Assamese Bihu Platter.

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