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Chana Dal Modak Recipe – Modakam Recipe

September 16, 2015 By Aarthi 10 Comments

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I am up with the final recipe for ganesh chaturthi. This is one of my favourite sweet or modak. It is so tasty and pretty easy to make as well.

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The outer dough is soft and inner filling is sweet, totally it will really hit the spot. This is the filling which i made for my susiyam and it works really good..
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 1 hour
Makes : 12 to 15 modak

Ingredients:

For Dough:
Rice Flour / Store Bought Arisi Mavu – 1 cup
Salt a pinch
Hot Boiling Water as needed
Gingelly Oil – 2 tsp + more for greasing mould


For Filling:
Jaggery / Sarkarai / Palm Sugar – 1 cup
Water – 1/2 cup
Chana Dal / Kadalai Paruppu – 1 cup
Water – 2.5 cup
Coconut – 1 cup grated
Cardamom Powder / Yelakai podi- 1 tsp

Ghee – 1 tsp

Method:

Take Chana dal in a pressure cooker, add in 2.5 cup of water. Pressure cook for 4 whistle, simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and set aside.

Take jaggery and water in a sauce pan and heat till it is melted. Strain and set aside.
Pour this back into the same kadai. Add in coconut, cooked chana dal and mix well.
Keep cooking this till it is thick. Add in cardamom powder, ghee and mix well. Remove this to a bowl and allow it to cool down.
Divide it into small balls.
Now make the dough. Take water in a sauce pan, add in salt and 1 tsp of oil. Once the water reaches a boil add in rice flour and mix well. It will become like a sticky dough.
Now remove this to a bowl and let it cool for 15 mins. Once it is cooled, add in 1 tsp of oil and make it into a soft dough.
Now take modak mould and grease it lightly. Take small portion of dough and spread it evenly in mould. Place the filling in and cover it with more dough.Now release the mould, you will have a modak.
Or you can make it as small balls. Take a small portion of dough and flatten it thinly. Place a small ball of filling in it and cover it. Roll it between your hands to Smoothen it.
Now place this in a steamer and steam it for 8 to 10 mins.
Let it cool for 5 mins before removing and serve.
Pictorial:
Take chana dal
add it in pressure cooker..cover with water
cook till done
it should be cooked completely
take jaggery in a kadai
add water
heat till it is melted
strain it
look at the dirt
this is clean jaggery syrup
take cooked chana dal in the same pan
add jaggery water
add in coconut
add little salt
mix well
keep cooking
it will get thick
keep cooking
now it is pretty thick
done
add in cardamom powder
add little ghee 
mix well..let it cool..as it cools it will get thicker
take some filling
shape it into ball
done
Heat water in a sauce pan
add in a touch of salt
Add some oil
Bring it to a boil
Take it of heat and add in rice flour
keep mixing
remove this to a bowl and allow it to cool down
add a tsp of oil
make it into a soft dough
Now take your moulds..These are some fancy moulds which i got from my supermart

grease it with oil

take two balls

flatten it like this

place filling in center

close it like this

ta da..

how beautiful it looks

You can make as small balls too..take a ball

flatten it like this

place filling in the center

cover it like this

seal it well

roll it into smooth balls

time to steam

place it in a steamer and steam

serve
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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Anonymous

    September 16, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    Rtyhuh

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  2. Asha

    September 16, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    Very tasty

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  3. Asha

    September 16, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Very tasty

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  4. Asha

    September 16, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Very tasty

    Reply
  5. Asha

    September 16, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Very tasty

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  6. Aarthi

    September 20, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    I found this recipe just when I thought it was so hard to make modaks. Thank you. It turned out great.

    Reply
  7. Renuka Mahalinggam

    December 2, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Hi.. can I replace gingerly oil with normal cooking oil?

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  8. Aarthi

    December 3, 2015 at 11:55 am

    @Renuka Mahalinggamu can use normal oil or ghee

    Reply
  9. Anonymous

    September 5, 2016 at 9:38 am

    hi my outer layer turned out very hard. what could have gone wrong?

    Reply
  10. Sasikala Padmanaban

    February 13, 2019 at 1:55 am

    Can you please tell the amount of water required for 1 cup of rice flour

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