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It’s Ganesh Chaturthi! Time to make Ukadiche Modak, Ganesha’s favourite. Here is the Modak recipe, of rice flour shells filled with a succulent mixture of jaggery. While this mouth-watering delicacy is an inseparable part of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations, you can try and make it more often as it is a tasty treat for the whole family, especially the young ones.
Ingredients:
To make Ukad
- 1/2 cup Rice Flour
- 1 tsp Glutinous rice flour
- 2/3 cup of water
- pinch of Salt
- 1 tsp Ghee/Butter/Oil
Stuffing
- 1/2 cup shredded Coconut
- 1/4 cup Jaggery
- 1 tbsp Poppy seeds
- Cardamom powder
- Assorted nuts
Method:
To make Ukad
- Mix rice flour and glutinous flour well and seive 2 to 3 times.
- Boil 2/3 cup of water, to that add pinch of salt and tsp of ghee and pour rice flour and mix well.
- Cover and keep for 10 mts.
To make Stuffing
- Take poppy seeds in microwave bowl and microwave for 2 mts.
- Mix jaggery and coconut with poppy seeds and microwave for 30 seconds.
- After 30 mts again mix coconut mixture well and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add cardamom powder and nuts.
To arrange Modak
- Take ukad, wet hands with water as well as some oil and knead ukad in soft dough.
- Split dough in equal size balls.
- Now start to pat ball in to small bowl size shape, now stuff filling and start to make plates around stuffing.
- Gather all plates at the center of stuffing and try to seal edges.
- Heat up 1 inch of water in Idly cooker, put one small round pot, over that place small thali or plate, cover that one with wet towel.
- Place Modaks over towel, leaving enough space around each modak.
- Steam for 10 mts over medium heat.
- Garnish with a dollop of ghee.
– By Suvarna Pimpalkar
