RAWA MODAK

You people are thinking that- "oh god! she is addicted to modak's", Ha Ha, Actually I love modak's, and Ganesha chaturthi has come so I can't remember anything without these Modak's but I wanted to change the shape so I have used different mould, you can use same original mould of modak.

Ingredients :-

Semolina or Suji - 3 cups

Jaggery - 2 cups

Water as required

Cardamoms - 4-5

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Salt - little bit

Method :-

Heat ghee in a vessel, add coconut, jaggery- Keep stirring continuously on medium flame and make a sticky solution.

Roast Semolina in nonstick pan in low heat till it slightly turns brown.

add ghee,milk and sugar. Stir till mixture becomes sticky. Add salt little bit and take off from flame, cover it.

Make small balls of dough and roll it in round shape.

Put 1 tbsp of the above stuffing in the flat round dough and pack it by taking all the edges up giving it shape

like a cone on top.

Ready to serve.

CHOCO LADDOO

Frankly speaking I wanted to make chocolate modak but all of a sudden changed my mind and made laddoos, so here is the recipe. 

 Ingredients:-

1 cup Chocolate Chips,
3 cups grated Coconut,
 1 cup Condensed Milk,
8-10 Walnuts (finely chopped).
Cardamom powder-1tsp
poppy seeds- tbsp

 Preparation:

In a big bowl, take chocolate chips, desiccated coconut, condensed milk and walnuts and mix well.

Divide into little portions and press them in modak mould if you want to make like modak otherwise make it like me I have made ball shaped modaks and rolled  modaks over poppy seeds.

BESAN LADDOO

It is my all time favorite sweet, mainly it is good for ritual ceremonies, In India people generally offer this laddoo to god as Prasad mainly in Hanuman jayanti, I made this laddoo for fast, it was delicious, Besan laddoo is very popular in northern India.  remember when you make laddoos, after frying the besan or gram flour, put little bit of ghee or clarified butter to your palm, it prevents sticking of flour in hands.

 Note:-you have to make laddoos when the mixture is warm otherwise you can’t make laddoos.

 Ingredients:-

Gram flour-500 gms

Castor sugar-500 gms

Ghee or clarified butter-250 gms

Cashew nuts-100 gms(broken into pieces)

Method:-

Mix gram flour and ghee over a low heat in a kadhai and constantly keep stirring to avoid lumps

 When it releases an appetizing smell remove it from the heat and allow cooling.

Add sugar and nuts to the gram flour and mix thoroughly.

 Now form ping-pong size balls of the mixture.

Ladoos are ready to be served

FRIED MODAK

What is modak I have depicted in "Modak" page, again I am writing that it is a kind of sweet dumpling, its also very popular, people  offer  modakas  to  god  mainly  in  "Ganesh chaturthi",There  are varieties of modak  like  “Ukadiche modak”,  “Rawa modak”, “banana nachni modak” , “chocolate modak”,  I am posting the recipe of Fried modak. I have made with wheat flour,you can use it rice flour

Ingredients-

Wheat flour -250 gms
Coconut - 200 gms
Jaggery -100 gms
Cardamom powder-1 tsp
Milk - 50 gms
Sesame seeds - 50 gms
Oil - 5 tbsp for frying and for dough
salt-little


Method-

Make a soft dough of the flour by adding oil and salt.

Heat ghee in a vessel, add jaggery, coconut and sesame seeds. Keep stirring continuously on medium flame and make a sticky solution.

 Make small balls of dough and roll it.

Put 1 tbsp of the above stuffing in the dough and pack it by taking all the corners up giving it a shape like a cone on top.

Take oil in a kadai and deep fry the Modaks till brown.

MODAK

Modak  is a kind of sweet dumpling, Basically it’s a  Maharashtrian(Indian) delicacy, but in Southern India it is also very popular, people  offer  modakas  to  god  mainly  in  Ganesh chaturthi.  There  are varieties of modak  like  “Ukadiche modak”,  “Rawa modak”, “banana nachni modak” , “chocolate modak”,   but “Ukadiche  modak” ( steamed modak ) is basic  one . I will try to post many varieties here, Modak is believed to be shri ganesh's favourite food.


Ingredients-

Rice flour-250 gms

Coconut-200 gms

Jaggery-100 gms

Cardamom powder-1 tsp

Milk-50 gms
water for making the dough
salt-little for dough

Method-

 Make dough with rice flour. and warm water and salt.

 Now take the coconut & Jaggery in a heavy-bottomed pan for the stuffing.

 Add milk. Keep on low flame with stirring. The mixture should be fairly dry and turn a shade darker.

 Now make balls with the dough. Flatten them on the palm or on a surface into a circle.

 Place the stuffing in it and cover it completely with the dough.

 Fold the edges tapering to the centre.

 Now steam-cook the modaks in a cooker for 15 minutes until done.