Teler Pithe

About Teler Pithe

Ingredients

• Rice flour 2 cups
• Refined flour (maida) ¼ cup
• Jaggery (gur), grated 1 cup
• Dates, seeded and chopped ½ cup
• Ghee 3 tbsps
• Oil for deep-frying
• Sugar ¾ cup
• Ripe bananas 2
• Strawberry crush for garnishing

How to Make Teler Pithe (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Heat ½ cup water in a non-stick pan, add jaggery and cook till it melts.
2. To make pithe, take rice flour in a bowl, add refined flour, dates, melted jaggery and little water and mix to make a smooth dough.
3. Heat oil and ghee in a kadai.
4. Divide the dough into small balls and deep-fry the ghee-oil till golden. Drain on absorbent paper.
5. Once the excess oil is soaked up, arrange the balls or pithe on a serving platter.
6. To make caramelized bananas, heat sugar in another non-stick pan and let it melt. When the sugar melts, cut the bananas into small pieces and add and mix well.
7. Put some of this banana mixture on each pithe, drizzle strawberry crush all around them and serve.

Additional Tips and Tricks

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Chef Shantanu Gupte

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

Reply

Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps