TOP FIVE DESERTS ONE MUST TRY WHILE TRAVELLING TO ODISHA

 

 

Let’s start with some glace on Odisha. It is situated in the eastern coast of India surrounded by four states, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh ,West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.The current population is 44.5 crore with the literacy rate of 75%.The state is protected by the blessings of Lord Jagannath. It’s capital is “The city of Temples” ,that is, bhubaneswar.It was once said that Odisha people or Odias are the best cooks in India.Sweets of Odisha holds a special position.The deserts are just awesome and something different which separates it from the sweets of other regions in India.Whether it be dry sweets or syrupy...it just takes off the taste.Now specifying the top popular sweets are:-

 

 

1-CHENNA PORA

 

It is a cheesecake kind of thing.It is one of the most famous sweets of Odisha and is considered to be Lord Jagannath’s favourite dish and thus often offered to him in Puri temple.This sweet can be found in any corner of Odisha, selling in grams.The lingering taste of burnt home-made cottage cheese and semolina combined with sugar syrup simply blows away your mind.It is baked for several hours until it turns red and the caramelised sugar gives it the perfect and desired taste. Simple,creamy,light.......just perfect .It can really turn your bad day to a good one.

 

 

2-PITHAS

 

It is one of the major sweets found in Odisha.It is a traditional desert in fact.No festival or occasion is complete without this delicious desert.It can be found in any sweet shop or in any ordinary stalls on road sides.It has a outer covering made of flour and the inner stuffing may be of any kind like using coconut and milk or dry fruits and caramelised chenna.The stuffing is filled in and the beautiful shape is given followed by frying it.At the end it is soaked in sugar syrup which completes it as a mouth watering one.The three most famous kind of pitha are chenna poda pitha,enduri pitha and chittau pitha.

 

 

3-RASABALI

 

The sweet dished is garnished with cardamoms and soaked in thick flavoured milk. Served in Lord Jagannath temple as a part of chappana bhogas, this delicacy trace its origni from Kendrapara district in Odisha.The flavoured milk left after eating the sweet is just heaven.Definitely one should try this.

 

 

4-KHIRA SAGARA

 

This basically represents a common sweet dish in India which is known as rasamalai.The sweet has depiction in Hindu mythological scripture about Laxmi serving Vishnu and Madhusudana with it.It consists of small balls of chenna which is soaked in condensed and flavoured milk. The main unique taste is because of the saffron and cardamoms which blend them overall as a lingering taste.The milk base in khira sagara is thick,rich and creamy which bound to melt your heart.

 

5-MALPUA

 

This is a mouth-watering dish which is mainly served in odia thalis.It is also often served as sakala dhupa (morning food) to Lord Jagannath.This is basically a pancake which is prepared using milk,flour,smashed ripe banana and coconut batter. These pancakes are then fried and soaked in sugar syrup. Cardamom seasoning gives this a special taste. This is a simple sweet dish which is quite heavy and eating two or three can fill your stomach.So one must take the privilege to taste it.