How to Cook Perfect RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA

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RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA. How to make Til Pitha: Soak the rice overnight in water. Drain excess water and grind it carefully. Roast sesame seeds and pound them to remove their outer shell.

RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA Take a handful of rice power and spread thinly in round shape. Then add some sesame and jaggery mixture on the pitha and fold the pitha in half and round it. These tasty morsels are pretty much cookies wrapped in a huge, goey, yummy Rice Krispy Treat. You can have RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA using 3 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA

  1. It's 2 Kgs of of Sticky Rice (Bora rice in Assamese).
  2. Prepare 1/2 Kg of Black sesame seeds (Til).
  3. You need 1 Kg of Jaggery (Gur).

The first step to making a Rice Cookie Treat is making the cookie. You can make any type of cookie you want but I'm gonna show you all how to make white. A pitha is a thin pancake and this version is typically made with the glutinous bora saul (rice) and stuffed with a mixture of However, come Bhogali Bihu, it is the unique local varieties of rice that take centre stage in Assamese kitchens, mostly in the form of pithas like sunga pitha - soaked bora rice. Persian rice flour cookies - gluten free.

RICE COOKIES or TIL PITHA step by step

  1. MAKING THE RICE OUTER LAYER : Wash and soak the rice for an hour. Strain rice and spread it out on a parchment paper or newspaper and let it dry partially.
  2. Grind the rice to a very fine powder and then sieve it to get fine rice powder.
  3. Now, press the rice powder in the container to make it air tight and cover it with a wet cloth. This layer will be the outer shell of the Pitha..
  4. MAKING THE FILLING : For the filling, wash and strain black sesame seeds, and let it dry. Roast the sesame seeds in a pan or wok until it gives out a nutty fragrance. Coarse grind the sesame seeds..
  5. Melt jaggery in a pan, and add it to the ground sesame seeds. Filling for the pithas is ready..
  6. MAKING THE FINAL VERSION OF SWEET : Heat a tawa to the required temperature.
  7. Scoop out some of the prepared rice flour, and spread the rice flour on the pan and press it gently with your fingers..
  8. Now put some sesame filling. Take care not to overfill. Roll up the pithas to your desired shape and gently push it to the edge of the pan and let it finish cooking while you continue making the next pitha..
  9. Enjoy! Serve the cookies with a hot cup of milk tea..

Finally a cookie recipe that uses coconut oil or ghee instead of butter! Honey cakes, cookies made with rice flour, cardamom, and honey, are a sweet treat that are gluten-free and sweetened only by honey. Til Diya Murgi Manxho (Chicken cooked with Black Sesame Seeds). Til Pitha: Soak the rice overnight in water. Grind it in a food processor carefully, don't over-grind it.