Modak Recipe

Welcome to my kitchen, Today we will make Modak. Since the  Ganesh Chaturthi is close by. and Modak is Bhagwan Ganesha’s favorite sweet and made in many Hindu homes during the first day of the Ganesh Chaturthi Festival. Modak is Maharashtrian dish dumpling made of rice flour dough and sweet coconut and jaggery. Ganapathi festival is always incomplete without the traditional sweet dish Modak recipe. Modak can be made in 2 ways. First with mould and second by shaping hands. it is very easy to make. if you never make this. so definitely try in this Ganesh Chaturthi. so let's start to make.

Ingredients for the dough of Modak Covering

• 150-200 grams of rice flour
• Water as required
• ¼ teaspoon ghee or oil
• Salt as per taste

Ingredients for sweet stuffing Of Modak

• Fresh grated coconut -100 grams
• powdered or grated jaggery-  200 grams 
• 6 to 7 green cardamoms, make a powdered
• ¼ teaspoon
• grated nutmeg or ground nutmeg powder (it is optional)
• ½ teaspoon poppy seeds – it is optional
• ½ teaspoon ghee or oil

Making Sweet Stuffing

Step 1:- Firstly heat ghee in a pan on low flame. Add poppy seeds.  Fry till the poppy seeds start crackling.

Step 2:- Then add grated fresh coconut, jaggery, cardamom powder, and grated nutmeg. Mix well and cook this coconut-jaggery mixture on a low flame.

Step 3:-  When the jaggery becomes melt. then cook this mixture for 9 to 10 minutes till the moisture from the jaggery begins to dry.

Step 4:- When the mixture turns thick, switch off the flame. Do not overcook, otherwise, the jaggery will harden. turn off the gas stove and cool this mixture completely. On cooling, the mixture will thicken more.

Making Dough

Step 1:- Bring one cup of water to a rolling boil with ghee and salt.

Step 2:- Reduce the flame and add the rice flour and give a good mix. stir continuously and mix the flour with the water.

Step 3:- When the rice flour comes to mix well with water. turn off the stove and cover the pot. Remove the pan from the stove and rest until the temperature comes down.

Step 4:- Now transfer all the flour to a large plate or thali or bowl. Gather the flour together and start kneading it.

Step 5:- Knead the dough very well. If your dough becomes dense or hard or dry, then add a few tablespoons of hot water and keep kneading.

Step 6:- Divided the dough and make the equal small size balls without any cracks.

Step 7:- Keep the balls covered with a kitchen towel. The balls should be smooth in appearance and should not have any cracks.

Making Modak

Step 1:-. Take a ball and flatten it with your fingers to a round disc or make a bowl shape. and place the sweet mixture stuffing in the center. You can apply ghee or oil to your palms while making Modak.

Step 2:- Bring together all the edges and join them on the top. Remove the extra portion of the dough from the top.

Step 3:- Shape and taper the top of the Modak with your fingers.

Step 4:- If you are using the mould. then grease the Modak mould with a bit of ghee or oil. close the mould and keep a dough ball inside the mould and press it so that space is made. Place the sweet stuffing.

Step 5:- Cover the floor with a small piece of flour. Seal the Modak, press and smooth it.

Step 6:- Now open the Modak mould. Remove the Modak gently from the mould. make all Modak in this way. and keep all Modak covered with a napkin so that the rice dough does not dry out.

Steaming  Modak

Step 1:- For the steaming firstly grease a steamer pan with oil or ghee. and Place the prepare Modak leaving a little space between each of them.

Step 2:- Take 2 to 3 cups water in a pot. place a trivet in a steamer or pot. Heat the water on high flame until begins to boil. 

Step 3:- When the water becomes hot or boiling then place the Modak pot.

Step 4:- Cover the pan and steam Modak for 10 to 15 minutes on a medium-low flame.

Pour few drops of ghee over the Modaks and offer them of Lord Ganesha.