Doodh Puli Pithe

 

Ingredients:

1. Milk : 1 litre
2. Sugar : 1 cup
3. Rice Flour : 500 gm.
4. Salt : a pinch
5. Lukewarm water to make the dough
6. Grated Coconut : 2 cups
7. Sugar : 1 cup
8. Cardamom Powder : 1 tblsp.

 Method:

1. Take coconut in a wide pan. Add sugar little by little and keep stirring in low flame.
2. Cook this mixture until the mixture comes together and sticks together.
3. Remove from heat when the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.
4. Flavor it with cardamom powder. Let it cool.
5. Take rice flour, add salt and mix. Add enough lukewarm water to make a soft dough. Cover the dough with a cloth.
6.  After sometime, make small balls, size of a lemon from the dough. Flatten each ball with your fingers in the shape of a bowl.
7. The shell would be medium thin. Stuff small amount of filling mixture into it.
8. Bring together both the edges and it will get the shape of half-moon, press and seal with your finger.
9. Your puli is done. Make other pulis the same way.
10. After sometime, make small balls, size of a lemon from the dough. Flatten each ball with your fingers in the shape of a bowl.
11. The shell would be medium thin. Stuff small amount of filling mixture into it.
12. Bring together both the edges and it will get the shape of half-moon, press and seal with your finger.
13. Your puli is done. Make other pulis the same way.
14. In a big wide pan, heat milk, Once it starts to boil, let it cook for 10 minutes.
15. Then lower the heat to low, add suger according to your taste(you should always add jsuger in low heat, as in high heat it can curdle the milk).
16. Mix, add all the prepared pulis now, cook for another 15 minutes or until pulis are soft and the milk has thickened. Take care not to break the pulis.
17. The milk shouldn't be too thick nor too thin.
18. Serve Cold.