Pitha (cake)

Many styles of pithas(cake)are created in Bangla Desh. Pithas area unit primarily made of a battar of rice flour,which is formed and optionally stuffed with sweet or savory ingredients.
For stuffed vegetable pithas, ingredients like cauliflower, cabbage radish, or potato area unit sometimes deep-fried, baked, or steamed, then mashed, cooled, and shaped into little balls to stuff into the pithas.

Sweet pithas usually embody sugar, jaggery, date juice, or palm sirup and may be stuffed with grated coconut, cashews, pistachios, sugary vegetables, or fruits. Sweet pithas are typically seasoned victimization cardamom or natural resin.

Depending on the sort of pitha being ready, pithas are often deep-fried in oil or drawn butter, slow-roasted over a fireplace, steamed, or baked and rolled over a hot plate.

Pithas area unit typically eaten up at little meals like breakfast or as a snack with tea, though there area unit several sweet varieties that area unit reserved for desserts or holidays.

Some of the foremost common pithas found in Bangla Desh embody the following:

Chitui/chitoi piṭha
Teler pitha (oil pitha)
Bhapa piṭha
Pakan piṭha
Puli piṭha
Beni piṭha
Dudher piṭha (milk pitha)
Bhija piṭha (wet pitha)
Chôndro puli
Muger puli
Dudh puli
Paṭi shapta
Mug pakon
Gokul
Chui Pitha or Chutki Pitha
Til Pitha