Traditional Bengali Winter Dessert; কলার সেমাই পিঠা

            End of November till mid-February, Winter arrives at Bangladesh. Thus bringing the cooking & celebrating season to every Bengali house. There are varieties of Pitha(s) you will find on the street-shop, some are savory but most are sweet!!
"Banana Semai Pitha' is one of those traditional desserts cooked at home. This dessert is made with 'Bichi Kola' (contains soft seeds) boiled with water for 2 days interval till the broth becomes pinkish purple in color. Then this broth is hand-rubbed through a bamboo strainer, at this moment you have to use your full strength so that all the pulp goes through the strainer leaving the seeds.
Rice flours are cooked with boiled salted water, to make Rice flour dough. When it is cool down, they are made into thin pieces of 'Semai' (looks like mini pasta BUT not a pasta!). 
Milk are then boiled with lots of Jaggery, sugar, Banana pulp & handmade 'Semai' till cooked.
This can be eaten warm as well as cold... & they taste like heaven!
   

Taken on: December 20, 2019

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