Poda Pitha

Ingredients
500 gm: Black gram dal (Urad Dal)
500 gm: Rice
1 no: Coconut (whole)
500 gm: sugar
1 teaspoonful: Salt
10/15 cashew nuts
1 tsp: Black pepper powder
2 tsp: Ghee
Method
1. Soak black gram dal and rice for about six hours. Wash the dal and rice cleanly and grind it. The paste should be fine and thick. Add salt and mix well. Keep paste aside for 1/2 hours. 2. Grate the coconut.
3. Break the cashew nuts into small pieces. And grind the black pepper.
4. Then mix coconut, sugar, cashew nuts and black pepper powder with the rice and urad dal paste and mix well
5. Pre-heat oven/pressure cooker for 10 minutes and grease it with ghee.
6. Pour the paste into the tray and keep it in the oven/pressure cooker. Keep it in hot for 30 minutes. It should be checked with a needle/spoon and when its colour is golden brown the Poda Pitha is ready to eat.
7. Then remove the whole Poda Pitha (baked cake) from the oven/pressure cooker and allow it to cool down.
8. Cut it into small pieces and serve it.