Khira Gaintha (Odia: କ୍ଷୀର ଗଇଁଠା) is a very delicate and extremely elevating dessert that’s unique to Odisha. This consists of balls of rice flour dough soaked in reduced cardamom flavored milk.
The rice flour is cooked with water and then kneaded to form a dough, molded into balls, and dropped into simmering milk cream.
Recipe of Khira Gaintha:
- Boil water in a pan. Add a teaspoon of oil and a teaspoon of salt to this.
- Now gradually and continuously add the rice flour to the water and keep stirring.
- Make sure there aren’t any lumps. Lower the flame, cover the pan with a lid, and cook it for five minutes.
- Take this mixture and turn it on to a wide plate. Let it cool.
- Once it has cooled just enough knead it with your fingers so that it forms a ball.
- Make small balls and steam them. In another deep pan boil the milk and evaporated milk.
- Simmer in low flame until milk thickens. Add the rest of the sugar, cardamom powder and heat the milk some more.
- Now one by one drop the rice balls into the boiling milk and continue stirring.
- You can make a paste with 1 tablespoon of rice powder and add it to the milk to thicken it.
- Add the coconut in the end along with slivered cashew and almonds. Serve it cool
- Serve Khira Gaintha on its own as a delicious dessert after your satisfying meal.
This Khira Gaintha or Gaintha Pitha usually offers to Lord on Baula Amavasya as per the Odia culture. Apart from Baula Amavasya, at some places, people use to prepare this on Diwali for the Badabadua Daka.
About the Author:
 | Mansi Rath, an Odia food blogger born and brought up in Balasore, Odisha. She is a software engineer by profession, a foodie, and by choice. She has an aim and has a passion to become a chef. She loves to explore places and different cuisines of Odisha. Follow her on Instagram @delicious_foodcornor |
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