Ganesh Chaturthi 2018- Recipe For Modak

This is my fav anytime and as a kid I’ve enjoyed it as a teatime snack many times so try this for your kids am sure they will enjoy it too.

Ingredients

For the outer covering:

Rice Flour(Idiyappam flour) – 1 cup
Water – 1 and 1/4 cup(adjust as needed)
Oil – 1 tsp
Salt – to taste

For the pooranam:

Channa Dal – 3/4 cup
Coconut – 3 tbsp
Powdered Jaggery – 1 cup
Cardamom powder – a pinch

Method

* Take jaggery in a sauce pan add water, mix well with a laddle for the jaggery to dissolve.

* Filter to remove impurities.Then pour it back to the pan and heat it up to thicken a bit.

* Pressure cook channa dal for 4 whistles and mash it with a laddle or masher.Then add this to jaggery syrup.

* Cook till it thickens.The more the water you add to jaggery it will take more time to get thicken, so be careful while adding water.

* At one stage the mixture will become thick leaving the sides of the pan.

* This is the right stage, add cardamom powder,mix well and switch off.When it is still warm, roll them into small balls.Keep aside.

* Add salt to rice flour,Mix it once.Boil water until it bubbles up,switch off then add it to rice flour.

* Mix with a laddle,once it starts to come together,Set aside for few mins until it is warm enough to handle with hand.Now bring everything together to form a smooth dough without any cracks.

* Now the stuffing and the outer dough is ready.Take your mould, grease it with oil,grease your hands too.Now close the mould and take a dough shape it as a ball and stuff it from the bottom side.

* Nicely press it along the sides in the inner part,leaving a center hole for the stuffing.Now carefully insert the stuffing in the center hole,press it.Then seal it with little dough.

* Then open carefully to take out the modaks. Grease the mould with oil when it starts sticking. Repeat the process till the entire dough finishes.

* If you don’t have mould you can shape modaks like this(for detailed steps check below).Then arrange all the modaks it in idli / idiyapam steamer and steam it for 8-10 mins. When the outer layer turns shiny then your modaks are done.