Ganesh Chaturthi 2019: 5 types of Modak to try out this festive season

Ganesh Chaturthi will be celebrated all over from September 2, 2019. It is one of the most loved and awaited festivals in India that is loved by all.  The ten-day-long reverie is packed with fun and frolic. But as you know festivals in the country is incomplete with some special delectable sweets. What better than Lord Ganesha’s favourite MODAK.  The quintessential prasad to Lord Ganesha, Vinayak Chaturthi is incomplete without an offering of these sweet dumplings. Ganesh Chaturthi 2019: Significance, Date, Time And Puja Details

Here Are 7 Ganesh Chaturthi Recipes To Prepare At Home:

1. Ukadachi Modak:

Ingredients Of Modak
To make Ukad

• 2 Cups Rice flour
• 4 tsp Glutinous rice flour
• 2 Cups Water
• A pinch of Salt
• 2 tsp Ghee (clarified butter)
• To make stuffing:
• 2 Cups Coconut, shredded
• 2 Cups Jaggery
• 4 Tbsp poppy seeds
• Cardamom powder
• Cashew nuts and raisins, roasted

 
Prepare Ukad:

• Mix rice flour and glutinous flour well. Seive 2 to 3 times.
• Boil water and add a pinch of salt along with a tsp of ghee and pour rice flour. Mix well.
• Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for 10 minutes.

Prepare the Stuffing:

• In a pan, roast the poppy seeds.
• Once they are roasted well add the shredded coconut and jaggery.
•  Mix everything well. Finally, add cardamom powder and cashew nuts. The stuffing is ready.

Prepare Modak:

• Take ukad, wet hands with water and oil to knead Ukad into a soft dough.
•  Take a small ball to flatten it a little and fill it with the stuffing.
• Pinch the ends and gather them in the centre and seal them.
• Keep the Modaks covered with a wet cloth as they can dry out.
• Heat up 1 inch of water in Idly cooker, put one small round pot, cover that place with small thali or chalni.
• On top of the chalni place a banana leaf, place Modak on leaf, leaving enough space around each Modak.
• Steam for 10 minutes over medium heat.
• Modaks are ready to be served.

 2.Chocolate Modak:

Ingredients:

• 1 packet glucose biscuits
• 100 gms drinking chocolate powder
• 1/4 tin condensed milk
• 50 gms desiccated coconut powder
• Cashews, Hazelnuts, Kishmish, Badaam (optional)
• 5 Tbsp ghee

How to Make Chocolate Modak:

• Powder the glucose biscuits well. Mix it with the drinking chocolate powder, milkmaid and four tablespoons of ghee.
• Fry the cashews and hazelnuts in 1 tablespoon ghee.
• Make a ball of the chocolate mix and while you do so, add one of the dry fruits in the centre
• Complete by giving it the Modak shape. You can use moulds also.
  Roll the Modaks in desiccated coconut and serve chilled!

3. Rava Modak recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2cups of semolina or Rawa
• 2 cups grated coconut
• 1.5 cup powdered jaggery
• 2.5 cups wate
• 4 to 5 green cardamoms crushed and powdered
• 2 teaspoon oil or ghee
• salt as taste

Filling:

• Mix the powdered jaggery with coconut in a pan on low flame.
• Keep stirring the mixture as the jaggery melts and the mixture starts thickening until it thickens.
• Do not overcook or it will turn hard. Keep aside to cool.

Covering:

• Pour water in a saucepan, add oil and salt to it and boil it.
• As the water boils add the semolina and keep stirring on low flame for 5 to 6 minutes.
• Take the mixture down and cover the pan for 5to 6 minutes.
• Then knead well and make a smooth dough. Knead till no lumps are left.
• Take a lemon sized ball to flatten it on the palm of your hand and add a spoonful of coconut jaggery mix too.
• Pinch the edges of the flatten dough and taking the edges to join them on the top. Your Rawa Modak is ready.

4. Modak Peda:

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon Milk
• 7-8 strands Saffron
• 250 grams or 2 1/2 cups Khoya (Mawa) crumbled
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• Instructions
• Crush the saffron stands in mortar and pestle. Add the saffron into warm milk and stir.
• Take grated or crumbled Mawa and sugar in a pan. Turn the heat on medium.
• Mix and cook with stirring constantly. Sugar will melt and it becomes paste-like.
• Add saffron milk mixture. Mix and cook for 4-5 minutes till it thickens and fat oozes from the side.
• Remove the mixture into a plate and let it become warm or cool to touch.
• Grease the mould using ghee. While the Mawa mixture is still warm, start shaping using the mould.

5. Dry Fruit Modak:

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons Almonds
• 3 tablespoons Cashew nuts
• 8 Dates seeds removed and roughly chopped
• 2 tablespoons Raisins (golden and black raisins)
• ½ cup Desiccated coconut
• 1 tablespoon Ghee (Clarified butter)
• 1-2 teaspoons water if needed

Instructions

• Take almonds and cashews in the grinder and make a powder out of it.
• Now add dates, raisins and dry coconut and make a coarse mixture.
• Now add ghee and form a dough.
• Add 1 teaspoon of water if it does not bind
• Remove that mixture into the plate.
• Grease the Modak moulds with ghee.
• Start shaping using a mould.

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