Bengali Traditional Pithapuli Festival || Winter Pithas of Bangladesh 🥞🧁

How are you? Wishing you all good health. Today I am going to share with you some information about winter Pitha of Bangladesh. Hope you like it.

Pithapuli is an all-time Bengali tradition. But when winter comes, it takes a colorful form. Every morning or evening the roadside or household becomes festive everywhere. The main attraction of that festival is the winter Pitha. Winter means the festival of Pitha Puli. At this time, Puli Pitha is quite accumulated for breakfast or afternoon chat. As soon as it arrives, the festival begins in the village of Bengal. At this time, the image of the village changed. As soon as the evening falls, just as the lights are on in the houses of rural Bengal, every winter evening, the hearth is seen in every house.

Various Pithas are made at this time of the year. Fresh rice powder is added to the pita recipe. Ingredients like jaggery, milk, and sugar are added. There is no end to the Pitha recipe of this country. Also, winter Pitha are very popular in urban areas as well. When you go out on the streets of Dhaka city in winter evening, you can see a stove on top of a van making various types of pies and colorful fillings.

Small Pitha shops sit at road junctions, alleys, bus stands to meet the Pitha needs of urban people. Shops sell a variety of winter Pthas. Where Chitai and Vapa are more visible. Crowds of people from various professions can be seen around these shops. And this is how the townspeople enjoy winter Pithas.

🧁Vapa Pitha- It is a very popular pitha as a winter pitha. Very popular as a breakfast or evening snack at this time. This pitha is already very sweet as it is made with jaggery and rice powder. People who are sweet are very fond of them.

🧁Chitai Pitha- The arrival of winter means a variety of bhartas with hot chitai pitha. This pitha is generally loved by everyone. Because if you want you can eat it with sweets and if you want you can eat it with bharta or meat.

🧁Puli pitha- There are 7 types of this pitha. It is prepared by frying in oil, boiling or soaking in milk mixture. Sometimes this pita is made by braising.

🧁Dudhpuli- Dudhpuli is very similar to puli pitha. After making the puli pitha, it is dipped in milk and sugar juice only. Those who like sweets a lot prefer Dudhpuli more than Puli.

🧁Pati Shapta- If you eat one, you will feel like eating a few more. It is such a pie. The inside of this pitha is wrapped in milk and sugar mixture. This pie is also very sweet to eat.

Apart from the above pithas, Taler Pitha, Banana Pitha, Nakshi Pitha, Pakan Pitha, Teler Pitha, Semai Kuli Pitha, Shamuk Pitha, Rose Flower pitha, Clove Pitha, Pakra Pitha, Egg Pitha In addition to Jhal pitha, Malai pitha etc., various Pithas of different names are seen in different regions of Bangladesh.