Taler Bibikhana Pitha | Taler Pithe | Sugar Palm Cake
Taler Bibikhana Pitha is a Cake prepared with Sugar Palm pulp and a few more ingredients and is a famous Bangladeshi dessert prepared with sugar palm.
Servings 8 portions
Calories 784kcal
Cost Rs 250
Ingredients
- 1 Tal / Sugar Palm to extract at least 150 ml juice
- 1 Coconut
- 150 ml Milk 1 cup
- 2 Egg
- 150 g Gur/ Jaggery
- 100 ml Vegetable Oil
- 50 g Ghee
- 50 g Rice Flour / Chaaler Atta
- 100 g All-Purpose Flour/ Maida
- 20 Raisin
- 20 Cashewnut
- 20 Pistachios
- ½ Tsp. Baking Powder
- ½ Tsp. Cinnamon Powder
Instructions
- Remove the skin of the sugar Palm or Tal and sprinkle some water on the fruit.
- Separate the carnels and grate the carnels using a grater to extract the juice from the Sugar Palm.
- Around 150 ml Sugar Palm extract is required to make the Bibikhana Pitha.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C for 15 minutes and make the batter in between.
- Now Scrap the coconut.
- Take the juice of Sugar Palm in a wok and start boiling on low flame for around 5-7 minutes until the juice thickens and emits a nutty aroma.
- Take the juice in a bowl and add 150 ml Milk and using a whisk mix roperly.
- Add Oil followed by Ghee and mix.
- Now heat the gur in the microwave for 2 minutes and add the liquid gur to the mixture and whisk.
- Add Two Eggs at room temperature and using the whisk mix thoroughly.
- Now add Rice Flour and All-Purpose Flour along with the baking powder and lightly fold the flour into the mixture.
- Add Raisin, Cashew Nut, and Pistachios and lightly fold.
- Take a baking mold and grease the same with vegetable oil.
- Pour the mixture into the mold.
- Bake the Taler Bibikhana Pitha in a Pre-heated oven for 25 minutes at 180 degrees C.
- The Pitha will not rise much, however, do check after 20 minutes of baking by inserting a toothpick in the middle of the Pitha to check the doneness.
- It took me 25 minutes to bake the Pitha.
- Take the Pitha out of the Oven and cool it on a wire rack.
- I have given the Pitha a rest of 1 day before serving it.
- You can store the Taler Bibikhana Putha in the fridge for 10 days or so if using an airtight container.
Nutrition
Serving: 200g | Calories: 784kcal | Carbohydrates: 106g | Protein: 8.2g | Fat: 40.9g | Saturated Fat: 22.2g | Cholesterol: 59mg | Sodium: 56mg | Fiber: 8.1g | Sugar: 70.9g
