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Odisha · Breakfast

Chakuli Pitha

Traditional 1. Chakuli Pitha recipe

🧺 Ingredients

• (12 pancakes):
• Rice: 250g (1 cup)
• Urad dal (black gram): 100g (� cup)
• Salt: 3g (� tsp)
• Mustard oil: 15ml (1 tbsp)
• Water: as needed for batter

👩‍🍳 How to make Chakuli Pitha

1. Soak rice and urad dal separately for 4 hours in water
2. Grind soaked rice to fine paste using soaking water (2 minutes grinding, paste should be smooth)
3. Grind urad dal separately to fluffy paste (3-4 minutes)
4. Mix both pastes with salt, cover bowl with cloth (fermentation temperature: 25�28�C)
5. Leave to ferment 6�8 hours until risen and bubbly (porous texture = ready)
6. Heat cast-iron griddle (tawa) over medium heat (160�C)
7. Grease lightly with mustard oil
8. Pour � cup batter, spread circularly from center outward using back of ladle in 3-second sweeping motion
9. Cook first side until edges turn light brown and pull away (2�3 minutes, medium heat)
10. Flip carefully, cook second side 30�45 seconds until pale spots appear
11. Transfer to plate, serve hot
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