Boiled Fara Recipe

Pitha is a Bengali, Bihar and Jharkhand dish and is a type of dimsum. They are typically made of rice flour, but sometimes wheat flour is also used. It usually contains a sweet or savoury filling inside. In this boiled pitha recipe, the filling consists of bengal gram (chana dal), garlic, turmeric powder, red chillies and salt. But variations can be introduced in the filling by stuffing vegetables like potato, cabbage or cauliflower in mashed form. A sweet filling can also be used by adding jiggery, sugar or grated nuts. Here, chana dal is used as it has high fibre content and it lowers cholesterol. It also tastes extremely delicious and can be digested easily. The method of cooking involves boiling as deep frying requires use of excessive quantity of oil. The wheat flour dough should be soft and easy to work with. One should be careful while stuffing the filling and it should be stuffed evenly inside. The sealing of the contents should be done firmly. Two different ways can be used to cook the pithas. They can either be boiled in water, or they can be fried using small amount of oil. These boiled pithas taste marvellous with just about anything, be it mint (pudina) chutney or even just tomato ketchup.

If you are looking for more healthy recipes do check Baked Paneer Roll, Palak Ke Baked Kebab, Stuffed Tortillas with chickpeas.

How to make Boiled Fara Recipe