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

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• 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

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