Bhagyashree Shares A Recipe For Odia-Fave Pakhala Bhata, A Cooling Dish To Beat The October Heat

Bhagyashree's Healthy Recipe

Bhagyashree shared a recipe for Pakhala Bhata, a delicacy from Odisha filled with prebiotics which is good to combat the October heat. 

Ingredients 

-Cooked rice -Buttermilk -Oil -Cumin seeds -Asafoetida -Curry Leaves -Ginger -Dried red chillies

Step 1 

First, soak cooked rice in a bowl of buttermilk and keep it overnight. 

Make a tadka of cumin seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida, ginger and dried red chillies. 

Step 2

Pour the tadka over the bowl of rice fermented in buttermilk. 

Step 3

Your Pakhala Bhata is ready! You can eat it with a fish preparation or brinjal or potato dish. 

Step 4

Pakhala Bhata is packed with probiotics and will help improve one's gut health and pump the body with electrolytes. 

Benefits Of Pakhala Bhata 

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