Steamed modak

steamed modak

A maharastrian sweet preparation made during the Ganesh festival.

Ingredients

Rice flour                                  1 cup

 Ghee                                       2 big tsp

Water                                       1 cup

Salt                                          1 pinch

Grated coconut                          50 gm

Jaggery                                     150 gm

Chironji                                     1 small tsp

Khus-khus                                1 small tsp

Almonds                                   1 small tsp

Cashew                                    1 small tsp

Khoya                                       ½ cup

Method

First In a pan add ghee and salt further pouring in water and bring it to boil. Then add rice flour and stirring continuously to prevent lumps from forming and heat more (thick pasty texture) and put it on a plate

Stuffing for modak:

Now take another pan heat ghee add khus khus, alomds, jaggery, cashew, coconut (grated) and cook and saute. Take out and keep in a bowl.

stuffing

Take the rice mix kept to cook and make it into a smooth dough form and fill it with the stuffing and make it a shape you wish (typically a rounded shape closing the bottom modak shape)

modak for steamed 

Now Steam it for 5 to 8 minutes or until cook and serve hot.