Kuni Tripathy from Philbani block, kandhamal dist saying abouth the recipe for Pumpkin Cakes. First off the skins of pumpkin and cut this into pieces. Then boil this and add little amount of salt. After it boiled properly, strain water. Then mash the boiled pumpkins and add rice flour in to the mashed pumpkins and also add some black gram barter. Then add salt and jaggery Or sugar as per taste. Then mix them well. Then add some sauted peanuts and coconut pieces. Then put a kadhaai on stove. Then put some oil and then prepared barter on that kadhai. Then cover them with a leaf plate. Then put some fired coals over the leaf plate then leave this for 30 minutes. Then remove the coal ashes from the kadhai and cut the pitha into pieces and serve. This tastes very good and this is one of the famous pitha in villages.
