Sitabhog Nikhuti

Name: How to cook Sitabhog Nikhuti - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Sushree Satapathy

Sitabhog Nikhuti

#Diwali The Sita bhog of Burdhawan (West Bengal) has been tingling many taste buds for more than hundred years now. A myth about this dish is that it was the favourite dish of mata Sita of Ramayana.

Ingredient

Cooking time :

50 mins 8 serve

3 cups

milk for using during kneading

1 cup

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Take the cheese in a plate and add rice powder mix it well. Keep kneading, if it feels rather hard, add a bit of milk into it and knead again. Make the dough soft and elastic.

* Step 2

Now put the pan on flame, pour oil and heat it, in a grater or sieve, put one ball of cheese and press it so that tiny, oblong, rice like bits of cheese drops into oil.

* Step 3

Deep fry till a light brown colour,

* Step 4

Take them out and keep it aside.

* Step 5

In another bowl put the sugar and water and let it boil and make thick syrup, put the cardamom powder into it and saffron for colour and flavour. Add the fried cheese drops in the sugar syrup. Mix it be soaked in the syrup from 10 to 15 minutes and then spread it on a plate to cool.

* Step 6

For Nikhuti add in a mixing bowl milk powder, Maida, soda bicarbonate, ghee and curd as much required

* Step 7

To make a dough.

* Step 8

Heat ghee in a deep frying pan, make small 15 to 20 oval shapes and fry until golden brown in colour.

* Step 9

In another pan add water and sugar and put it to boil along with food colour if needed, heat until it make a light colouredp syrup. Put these small balls into the hot syrup.