Bibikhana Pitha | Bikrampur er Badshahi Bibikhana Pithe
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Bengali
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • Rice flour: 1 cup
  • All-purpose flour: 2 tbsp, optional
  • Egg: 2
  • Milk: 500, reduced to 250ml
  • Jaggery: ½ cup
  • Pinch of Salt
  • Coconut: 1 cup, scrapped and shredded
  • Ginger: ½ tsp, freshy grated
  • Green Cardamom: ¼ tsp, freshly crushed
  • Ghee: 4 tbsp + 1 tsp for greasing
Instructions
  1. Sieve rice flour and all-purpose flour, salt and crushed cardamom together, twice if possible to remove lumps.
  2. Mix Ghee and jaggery in a bowl.
  3. Whisk egg one at a time in a separate bowl.
  4. Preheat the oven at 180C.
  5. Add milk in egg gradually and whisk slowly.
  6. Add jaggery and ghee mixture in egg-mixture and whisk carefully without splitting the egg. Also add ginger at this point.
  7. Finally add flour mixture in two steps and mix with a spatula until there's no visible trail of flour in the mixture.
  8. Brush a cake/mould with ghee and pour the batter in the pan. Tap the pan on kitchen counter couple of time to distribute the batter evenly. This step will ensure even rise of the pithe.
  9. Bake the pithe for 45-50 mins at 180C or unless skewer comes out clean if inserted in the middle.
Recipe by Scratching Canvas at http://www.scratchingcanvas.com/pora-pithe-recipe-bibikhana-pitha/