Friends, 14th January is a very special day for Indians. While whole of India celebrate it as ‘makar sankranti, the harvest festival celebrated under many names across India.Punjabis celebrate it as Lohri, in the night of 13th January. They light bonfire and dance ‘gidda’ and ‘bhangra’ around it and savour sweets like rewari, laddus and chikkis. South Indians celebrate it as Pongal, Assamese as Bihu and Bengalis as Pous Parbon. The main aim of the festival is to thank the Sun God for good harvest.
Makar Sankranti, marks the end of chilly winter when the sun starts its journey northward. People take holy dip in Ganges or any river and worship Sun God, early in the morning. Biharis eat curd and pressed rice(chura) and have ’tilkut’, a kind of sweet made with beaten sesame seeds and sugar or jaggery. Being a Bengali, I celebrated it by preparing a special Bangla sweets called ‘Peethey-puli,payesh’which is specially made for this auspicious occasion.
We Bengalis have the tradition of preparing kind of the dessert such as dudh puli, roshopuli,gokul pithe, bhaja pithe etc. The easiest and most sumptuousof them is’patisaptas’ and about which I mentioned in my earlier blog.
Read it here: https://mousumisays.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/patisaptas-a-sweet-cuisine-of-bengal/

Today I will tell you about another traditional sweet ‘dudh puli peethey’. Its made with rice flour dough balls, stuffed with date jaggery, condensed milk and dessicated coconut stuffing, then boiled in milk. I want to inform you that if we add some boiled sweet potatos and refined wheat flour(maida) in the rice flour, while preparing the dough , the ‘pitheys’ would become extra soft and very delectable.


Friends, for ‘doodh peethey’ the stuffing is very important. It is prepared by mixing date jaggery, dessicated coconut in a frying pan and stir it in low flame for five minutes or so then condensed milk is added to it. When the mixture take sticky consistency, it is removed from fire and let it cool. Now take small balls of rice flour dough, fill in the stuffing in the middle and give it any shape we like, just like momos. Then they are boiled in milk untill the peethey strart floating on the surface, the finishing touch would be the addition of date jaggery into the milk.

I wanted to acquaint you about the Bengali traditional food, which is getting scarcer with each passing day. Today the younger homemakers just don’t bother to go through the chores preparing dishes at home and simply prefer to buy them readymade from the sweetshops. But it would be really sad if children don’t get to savour homemade pithe puli and the fun and excitement in the house during their preparation.
In our childhood days we used to wait for the festival to gorge on the delicacies prepared by our elders. It’s indeed our responsibility to keep the traditions alive and thriving. Never allow the light of it, getting extinguished, it would then be really unfortunate.
Traditions are succor to human race and the society, which keep them rooted to their culture. It should be duely passed on to the next generation. Otherwise everybody would turn into rootless entities. We must avoid the scenario by making some sincere efforts on our part.
What do you think about it, do tell me in the comment box.
Happy Makar Sankranti to all of you
Adieu for now
Happy Makar Sankranti🌽
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Happy Makar Sankranti to you too!❤
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Glad to know about this traditional sweet! Greetings, Friend!
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Thanks Indira, I try my best to keep these traditional food alive, or our children would never know about them. A lot of greetings for Makar Sankranti to you and your family!❤
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Getting hungry to see the homemade traditional Bengali sweet- “Pithey”
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You are always sure to have a bite on the real one!!❤❤
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Good to know about doodh peethey. We make salted one today. Happy sankranti!!
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I have also tasted the salted version stuffed with spiced chana dal mash. It tasted very good. Thanks for sharing it with us. Happy sankranti to you and your family.
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Happy Makar Sankranti Kaushal ji 🙏😊
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Thank you and wish the same to you too 🙏💐
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😊🙏
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Looks so delicious! Happy Sankranti ♥️
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Thanks dear. Happy Sankranti to you too 🌹
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Happy Makar Sankranti! And definitely it is heartwarming to see the festival unite us from different parts of the country! Roots maketh us.
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Absolutely agree with you. Roots maketh us. Happy Makar Sankranti to you! May God bless all the earthlings with health and happiness 🙏
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True. We should always be in touch with our roots.
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It’s the the person”s roots which go on to define his or her charecter afterwards. Thanks Monika for going through my post.
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That is so true, we need to keep our traditions alive to pass it down to the next generation.
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Agree, it’s the traditions which nurture our souls. It should be thriving among us.
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Delicious.. 😋
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Thanks a lot Kamala for finding it so!😊❤
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Happy sankranti Mousumi 🌾
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Happy sankranti to you too Radhika. Stay happy and safe.❤
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Excellent post. Happy Makar Sankranti. Wow. Yummy dishes. I would love to try them. Amazing.
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Thank you very much. A very happy Makar Sankranti to you too. The dishes are really yummy for those, who have a sweet tooth, like me😊
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Happy Makar Sankranti
পৌষ সংক্রান্তির অনেক অনেক শুভেচ্ছা জানাই 🙏
Thank you so much for sharing this post on Makar Sankranti which has been a famous festival since ancient times.
Many many good wishes on this auspicious day.
Regards 😊🙏
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Happy Makar Sankranti to you too. May the Sun God keep us all healthy safe and happy. 🙏
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Same to you. 🙏😊
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Happy Makar Sankranti to all of you.
Best wishes and compliments. Regards 😊🙏
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Happy Makar Sankranti Mousami
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Happy Makar Sankranti to you too Amruta!
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Happy Makar Sankranti
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Happy Makar Sankranti to you too!
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Happy Sankranthi, Mousumi!
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Happy Sankranthi to you too, Jyothi!
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Happy makar Sankranti..
The dish looks delicious 😋
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Thank you Shivani, I wish the same to you too.❤
Indeed the dishes are very delicious specially the patisaptas😋😋!! You see all our festivals are mostly about gorging on special delicacies, isn’t it so!😊
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Glad to know you still remember and follow your tradition. These traditional dishes are looking so delicious 😋
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I try my best to inculcate a sense of respect in my children for our age old traditions. It helps to keep us rooted…. The dishes are indeed very delicious 😊❤
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