Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kakharu poda pitha (pumpkin cake). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

So here is a Raja Special Poda Pitha for all of you. It is an Odia special dish. Hope you will love this And of course Happy Raja to you all! 😃. This cake/podopitha is available only in Odisha.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook kakharu poda pitha (pumpkin cake) using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make KAKHARU PODA PITHA (pumpkin cake):

1. Get 1/2 kg ripe Pumpkin
2. Prepare 1/2 Cup sugar
3. Take 1/2 Cup jaggery
4. Take 1/2 Cup grated coconut
5. Get 1 Cup Tuta Basmati Rice (soaked in water for 1 hr)
6. Take 1 Teaspoon baking powder
7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
8. Get 2-3 pieces chopped litchi
9. Get 6-7 pieces Almonds
10. Get 1/2 Bowl Sooji (semolina)
11. Get 1/2 Cup Water
12. Prepare 2 Tablespoons Deshi Ghee
13. Prepare 2 Teaspoons milk made
14. Prepare 1 Medium Size Banana leaf
15. Prepare as required for garnishing few pieces of coconut slices,
16. Get as required Almonds and litchi

Poda Pitha among them is a flooded dish to found cooked in every home these days. The recipe is passed over generations but remained a favourite for every Odia people. Here I am sharing a recipe that I learnt from my Grandma. One of the authentic dish of Odisha.. .

Instructions to make KAKHARU PODA PITHA (pumpkin cake):

1. First step is to wash pumpkin and then remove it's skin then cut it into medium pieces and then take a pressure cooker and cook it by adding little water to it and wait for 4 to 5 whistle. Turn off the gas.
2. Wait for 5 to 6 mins the gas will release by it's own from the pressure cooker. Now transfer that batter to a mixing bowl and cool it completely and add there Semolina and raw soaked rice(drain all water 💦) and grind it together all to get a fine and sooth paste.
3. Note: Don't add extra water 💦 to it.
4. Now add grated coconut, ghee, sugar, chopped litchi, milk made and mix it well. Cover the batter and rest it for 1 and 1/2 hr.
5. After 1and 1/2 hr bring that paste and add there baking powder and baking soda and stir it in one direction.
6. Now again switch on the gas flame a place a pressure cooker set there a banana leaf and apply some ghee on the leaf both top and bottom and pour the batter to it and cover the lid but remove it's load and cook it or bake it for 1 hr in a slow flame. After an hr check it with the help of a tooth pick. Cool it for 15 mins.
7. To remove the cake or Pitha 🥮 easily place a big sige mouth open vessel and pour 3 glasses of water and place that pressure cooker there for 4 to 5 mins and with the help of your ✋ hand remove take out the cake. It's ready now 😘😄❤️❤️ serve and enjoy….
8. Note: You can adjust the sweetness according to your taste

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