pakan pitha

 Pakan pitha

Ingredients:

 1.   Ripe banana- 1

 2.   Rice flour-1 cup

 3.  Flour- 1/4 cup

 4.   Sugar-5 Tbs

 5.  Baking powder-1/2 ts

 6.   salt-1/8 ts

 7.   Water-  2/3 cup

 8.  Oil- for  fry
   
Procedure:

  1.   Peel the banana and mashed it smoothly.
  

 2.    Take rice flour, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder in a bowl and mix them well to distribute all

        things evenly.                     
 3.   Now take the mashed banana in a mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients small amount at a time

       and knead them. Add water slowly and make it like a dough consistency. Knead the dough we to

       make it smooth and lump free. Then keep the dough to rest for about an hour or more.

 4.   Divide the dough to small balls. Brush little oil on a plate, take a ball and press it on the plate to

      make it around 1/2 cm oval shaped disk.

 5.   Heat oil in a medium high heat. When oil is heated enough put one pitha into the oil. If oil is

      heated perfectly then

     pitha will remain in the bottom for few seconds and then puffs up. When it puffs up flip the side
     and fry few seconds and then take out on a paper towel to soak the excess oil.

 6.   Fry all the rest of pitha in the same process and serve hot.