The harvest festival is celebrated with great joy and exhilaration all across the country.
Makar Sankranti , the harvest festival celebrated in the month of january at Odisha and West Bengal is symbolised with the traditional cuisines such as pithe and puli.
Here are 5 delicacies of Makar Sankranti that you must surely try at home:
Patisapta is a famous Bengali pithe where a crape is prepared with rice flour and stuffed with jiggery flavoured or sugary coconut stuffing.
Khejurer gurer payeshbeing a winter delicacy is a dessert to the Bengalis. It is cooked by boiling the rice in milk with Date Palm Jaggery
Gurer narkel naruis a bengali sweet prepared in the festival made with fresh grated coconut and Jaggery.
Rosh Bhora is a winter delicacy prepared out of urad dal fried as fritters soaked in light sweet syrup to give a sweetening taste to it.
Dudh Puli is a famous bengali dessert prepared in the form of dumplings with rice flour and stuffed with coconut mixture known as Puli. The pulis are then slowly cooked with milk and Jaggery or sugar