Gokul Pithe

Name: Gokul Pithe
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients: Scraped Coconut 1 cup; Khoya Kheer Or Mawa 1 cup; Jaggery Or Patali 1/2; Sugar 1/4 cup, adjust to your taste; Green Cardamom Pods Or Choto Elach 2, crushed; All Purpose Flour 1/2 cup; Rice Flour 1/2 cup; Semolina Or Suji 1/4 cup; Milk @ room temperature enough to make a smooth pakora/fritter batter; Jaggery 1 cup; Sugar 1/4 cup; Water 2 cup; Saffron few threads; Green Cardamom 2, crushed

Sweets
Jan 19, 2015
Moumita Ghosh
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This is the season of Bengal special "Pithe Puli". In Makar Sankranti Bengali are busy in making sweets. The sweets are cooked with Nolen Gur Or Jaggery, instead of sugar. Many different types of sweets, which are called Pithe are made during this season, like "Puli Payesh, Patishaptas, Bhaja Puli, Aske Pithe, Gokul Pithe" etc. This is a little lengthy process, but not very difficult. But all the hard work worth after having the sweet. It tastes heavenly. But do not keep them for long time, the Pithes should be consumed with the day of making. No more discussion, here is the recipe of Gokul Pithe...

Today I'm going to share the recipe of "Gokul Pithe", which is made with scraped coconut & khoya Or milk solid. In this recipe, at first stuffing is made with scraped coconut, khoya & jaggery, then shaped them into cakes, dipped into rice flour, Maida, semolina batter, deep fried and soaked into jaggery syrup.

Details

Yields

6 serving(s)

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Time

Preperation
60 Minutes

Cooking
60 Minutes

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Cooking Level
Difficult

Meal Type
Dessert

Cuisine
Bengali

Ingredients of Gokul Pithe

- For The Stuffing :

Scraped Coconut 1 cup
Khoya Kheer Or Mawa 1 cup
Jaggery Or Patali 1/2
Sugar 1/4 cup, adjust to your taste
Green Cardamom Pods Or Choto Elach 2, crushed
For The Batter :
All Purpose Flour 1/2 cup
Rice Flour 1/2 cup
Semolina Or Suji 1/4 cup
Milk @ room temperature enough to make a smooth pakora/fritter batter

Vegetable Oil/Ghee - for deep frying

For Syrup :

Jaggery 1 cup
Sugar 1/4 cup
Water 2 cup
Saffron few threads
Green Cardamom 2, crushed

Directions to make Gokul Pithe in steps

Steps

Making The Stuffing :

Take a non-stick pan, add scraped coconut, khoya, jaggery, sugar and crushed cardamom and put on low flame.
Keep stirring, make a sticky stuffing. When everything will be together, the stuffing is ready.
Now turn off the heat, keep the pan aside and let the stuffing cool down completely.
Make The Syrup :
In the meantime make the batter and syrup. First take a sauce pan, put jaggery, sugar, water, saffron & cardamom pods, put on medium flame.
Let the syrup boil for 5 minutes on medium heat, turn off the heat.
Make The Batter :
Now take a medium size bowl, add rice flour, maida, suji & milk to make pakora/fritters batter.

Making The Gokul Pithe :

Now take little amount of the coconut, khoya mixture, make small balls with your plum.
Then flatten it by pressing with the other palm to make it look like patty. Put the coconut khoya mixture patties on a wax paper.
Heat enough oil/ghee in a deep frying pan. Now grease your palm with some oil, take each patty, dip into the flour batter and drop into the hot oil.
Do not add too much pithes at time, not more than 2-3 at a time. Fry them on low heat till golden brown, take them out of the pan and put into the warm syrup for 1-2 minutes. After 1-2 minutes, take them out of the syrup and put on a flat serving plate.
You may serve them warm or at room temperature. Enjoy your 'Gokul Pithe'.