Recipe: Perfect Doodh Puli (Traditional Bengali Sweet)

Doodh Puli (Traditional Bengali Sweet).

You can cook Doodh Puli (Traditional Bengali Sweet) using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Doodh Puli (Traditional Bengali Sweet)

1. It's 1/2 cup of rice flour.
2. You need 1 cup of semolina.
3. Prepare pinch of salt.
4. It's pinch of cardamom powder (opt).
5. It's 1/2 cup of leftover carrot halwa.
6. Prepare 400 ml of full cream evaporated milk / 1 litre milk reduced to half.
7. Prepare 4 tbsp. of brown sugar or to taste.
8. You need 1/4 tsp. of cardamom powder.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp. of chopped pistachios.
10. You need 2 tbsp. of raisins.
11. It's pinch of saffron.

Doodh Puli (Traditional Bengali Sweet) instructions

1. In a bowl, mix together rice flour, semolina, cardamom powder and a pinch of salt. Knead into a dough by adding required quantity of water. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for an hour..
2. Divide into 10-11 equal portions..
3. Take one portion of the dough and flatten it into a round circle with your fingers. put 1-2 tsps. of the stuffing in the centre..
4. Close it into a crescent shape..
5. Seal the edges with your fingers..
6. Or with a fork..
7. Line a colander with a wet cloth and place the pithes in it. Cover with the cloth..
8. Steam for 4-5 minutes in a saucepan, steamer or pressure cooker..
9. Bring the milk to boil. Add sugar, steamed puli pithe, cardamom powder and raisins. Simmer on low flame, covered for 15 minutes. Keep stirring at intervals..
10. Serve, garnished with chopped pistachios and crushed saffron..