Chhana Manda Peetha: fried rice cakes from Orissa, in Odisha

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Heat a pan add jaggery after melting jaggery add coconut and stir. Add ginger and pepper powder mix well and when the mixture becomes dry set it aside. Heat a pan add water, add salt, add rice flour mix it well and make a soft dough. Divide the dough take one piece to flatten it and stuff the coconut mixture then cover it and make it into a round shape. Once the oil is hot then fry the dumplings to enjoy this dish from Orissa. You can also steam and eat them. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for l