Priya's sweet coconut dumplings (Bokful pitha)

Usually made during Sankranti, these dumplings have the perfect balance between sweet and savoury with a mouth watering filling. These scrumptios dumplings are best eaten with a cup of tea, Assam prefereably.

There is probably not a single Bengali household that doesn't have their own, finely refined, recipe that they follow. So this is not aimed at those households. This post is aimed at those who haven't been so lucky to have their family recipe handed down to them, find themselves 'out of the home' for the first time for uni or work, or have never tried bokful pithas, you're really missing out.

This is my mum's personal recipe and as a lot of you will know: first generation Bengali mums have an encyclopedic knowledge of 100s if not 1,000s of delicious Bengali recipes and my mum is no exception. With cooking so intuitive to her, she is also not much of a 'measurement' person so when discussing this recipe, mum provided measurements in the form of 'handfuls' and 'pinches', so I have translated this for us mere mortals where cooking is not yet intuitive.

Give it a go and I hope you enjoy it!

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