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 - ½ cup
Chana Dal / Kadalai Paruppu - 1 cup
Water - 2.5 cup
Coconut - 1 cup grated
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:
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| Take chana dal |
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| add it in pressure cooker..cover with water |
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| cook till done |
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| it should be cooked completely |
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| take jaggery in a kadai |
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| add water |
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| heat till it is melted |
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| strain it |
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| look at the dirt |
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| this is clean jaggery syrup |
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| take cooked chana dal in the same pan |
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| add jaggery water |
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| add in coconut |
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| add little salt |
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| mix well |
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| keep cooking |
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| it will get thick |
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| keep cooking |
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| now it is pretty thick |
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| done |
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| add in cardamom powder |
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| add little ghee |
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| mix well..let it cool..as it cools it will get thicker |
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| take some filling |
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| shape it into ball |
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| done |
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| Heat water in a sauce pan |
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| add in a touch of salt |
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| Add some oil |
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| Bring it to a boil |
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| Take it of heat and add in rice flour |
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| keep mixing |
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| remove this to a bowl and allow it to cool down |
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| add a tsp of oil |
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| make it into a soft dough |
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| Now take your moulds..These are some fancy moulds which i got from my supermart |
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| grease it with oil |
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| take two balls |
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| flatten it like this |
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| place filling in center |
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| close it like this |
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| ta da.. |
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| how beautiful it looks |
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| You can make as small balls too..take a ball |
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| flatten it like this |
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| place filling in the center |
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| cover it like this |
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| seal it well |
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| roll it into smooth balls |
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| time to steam |
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| place it in a steamer and steam |
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| serve |
Anonymous
Rtyhuh
Asha
Very tasty
Asha
Very tasty
Asha
Very tasty
Asha
Very tasty
Aarthi
I found this recipe just when I thought it was so hard to make modaks. Thank you. It turned out great.
Renuka Mahalinggam
Hi.. can I replace gingerly oil with normal cooking oil?
Aarthi
@Renuka Mahalinggamu can use normal oil or ghee
Anonymous
hi my outer layer turned out very hard. what could have gone wrong?
Sasikala Padmanaban
Can you please tell the amount of water required for 1 cup of rice flour