Category: Modak

Ingredients

Method

• 1 cup Milk.
• ½ cup Milk Powder.
• ¼ cup Almonds coarse flour(optional).
• 1½ tbsp. Ghee
• Watermelon seeds.

1. Dry roast Almonds and keep aside.
2. Heat 1 tbsp. ghee in a nonstick pan.
3. Add Milk powder in it and roast till golden brown on a medium flame. Stir continuously.
4. Add milk and Sugar. Again stir continuously. switch off the flame when you get dough like consistency and the batter leaves the pan.
5. Add Almond flour and Cardamom powder, mix well and keep aside to cool down.
6. Divide the dough into 5 equal parts. Make a round ball and roll it on watermelon seeds and then press your fingers on the ball to give modak shape.
7. Offer Milk modak to the Ganpati bappa  with love faith and devotion.

Ingrediants

• 1 cup Peanut powder.
• ½ Cup milk powder.
• 1 tbsp. Sugar powder.
• 1 tbsp. Ghee.
• Pumpkin seeds

Method

1. Dry roast peanuts and keep aside.
2. when completely cool down grind peanuts in a mixture grinder.
3. In a mixing bowl mix all three ingredients thoroughly.
4. Now add ghee and mix and form dough like consistency.
5. Make a shape of the Modak and garnish it with pumpkin seeds.
6. Offer these Modaks to Ganpati bappa with love, faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup thick Poha.
• 3 tbsp. Milk powder
• ⅓ cup Milk.
• 2 tbsp. Sugar.
• ½ tsp.Ghee.
• 10-12 Cashews.
• 10-12 strands Saffron.
• 6 Cardamom
• 10-12 Cranberry.
• 10-12 Black currant.

Method

1. Dry roast Cashews till it crisp and add poha in the same pan. Roast till crisp and aromatic. Keep aside.
2. Cut or chop Cranberry and Black currant and keep aside.
3. In a mixture grinder jar grind Sugar Cardamom and Saffron together. Here we are grinding Saffron not lavigating because in this recipe we need only flavour of saffron and not colour.Keep aside this mixture.
4. In a mixture grinder grind Poha into powder and keep aside.
5. In a mixing bowl mix Poha powder, sugar powder and milk powder. Mix well and add chopped Cranberry  Black currant and Ghee. Knead dough with the help of regular room temperature milk.
6. Divide dough into 5 equal portions and with the help of modak mould shape each portion into modak.
7. Offer Poha Modak to Ganpati Bappa with love faith and devotion.

Ingredients

• 2 cup desiccated Coconut powder.
• 2 cup Milk.
• ¼ cup Sugar.
• ¼ cup Milk powder.
• 6 Cardamom
• Few strands of Saffron.
• ½ tsp Ghee.

Method

1. Lavigate Saffron in ½ tsp milk and keep aside.
2. With the help of motor and pestle grind Cardamom into coarse powder and keep aside.
3. Heat milk and sugar in a non stick pan.
4. Add coconut powder in it and stir well till milk is reduce and you will get thick consistency.
5. Now add milk powder and stir well. When batter leave the pan and you will get dough like consistency add Saffron and Cardamom.
6. Now add ghee to give little shine to our modak.
7. Mix well and switch off the flame.
8. Keep aside till it cool down.
9. With the help of modak mould make modaks out of it.
10. Offer Coconut modak to Ganpati Bappa with love, faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• For stuffing.
• 1 cup Coconut.
• ½ cup Jaggery.
• 1 tbsp. Ghee.
• 1 tsp. Cardamom powder.
• For Dough
• 1 cup Rice flour.
• 1 cup Water.
• 1 tbsp. Ghee.
• For Garnishing
• 1 tbsp. Ghee.
• saffron
• 1 Turmeric leaf.

Method

1. For preparation of stuffing. Heat ghee in a nonstick pan and roast coconut in a slow flame.
2. Roast for 3-4 minutes or till the crackling sound of water content in the coconut stops..
3. Add jaggery and mix well with coconut. Stir continuously till it holds shape.
4. Mix Cardamom powder and saffron. Mix well and switch off the flame.
5. Spread the coconut stuffing in a plate to cool down.
6. For preparation of Saffron ghee, In mortar add ½ spoon of milk and pinch of Saffron strands. With the help of pastel levigate saffron and mix it with hot ghee in a small bowl.
7. For preparing dough heat water in thick bottom kadhai or in a nonstick pan.
8. Add ghee and wait for the water   to boil. Add rice flour in it and quickly stir the dough. Turn the flame to slow and cover with the lid for 2-3 minutes .
9. Switch off the flame after 3 minutes and after 5 minutes transfer the content  in a plate.
10. Try to knead the hot dough by adding 1-2 tbsp. of water. Knead continuously to make soft dough.
11. Cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep aside.
12. Make 6 equal parts of the  coconut stuffing.
13. From the rice dough roll 6 puris and use remaining dough for making rice roti.
14. Now gather edges of the puri and and give the modak shape.
15. Heat steam cooker. Apply ghee over turmeric leaf and place this leaf on the plate of the steamer.
16. Now arrange modak on the leaf and apply saffron ghee with the help of a brush.
17. Close the lead and cook modak for 10 minutes.
18. After 10 minutes switch off the flame and arrange steamed Modak in a serving plate.
19. Pour saffron ghee on  steamed modak.
20. Offer Steamed Modak to Ganpati Bappa with love,  faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• For stuffing
• 1 cup grated Coconut.
• ½ cup chopped Jaggery.
• 1 tbsp. Ghee.
• 1 tsp. Cardamom powder.
• For dough.
• 1 cup wheat flour.
• 5 tbsp. Water.
• 1 tbsp. Ghee.

Method

1. In a mixing bowl  mix flour and ghee. Mix well . Now add  water and knead smooth dough. Knead continuously for 2-3 minutes. Cover and  keep aside.
2. Heat ghee in a nonstick pan and roast coconut in a slow flame.
3. Roast for 3-4 minutes or till the crackling sound of water content in the coconut stops..
4. Add jaggery and mix well with coconut. Stir continuously till it holds shape.
5. Mix Cardamom powder and switch off the flame.
6. Spread the coconut stuffing in a plate to cool down.
7. Open the lid of dough pan and again knead the dough and make 6 small balls of the dough. You can make paratha from the leftover dough.
8. Roll each dough ball into a small puri.
9. Divide stuffing into 6 equal parts. Make a ball of it and place each ball in the center of the puri.
10. Bring the edges of the puri together and join them at the center. So you will get dumplings like Structure. Excess dough can be pinched off and removed.
11. Heat ghee in a tadka pan or in kadhai if you are preparing in bulk quantity and deep fry all the modak.
12. Offer fried modak to Ganpati Bappa with love, faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• ½ Rice flour.
• ½  cup Condensed Milk.
• ½ Milk.
• 2 tbsp. Ghee.
• 1 tsp. Cardamom powder.
• Pinch of Saffron strands.

Method

1. In a mixing bowl mix rice flour and cardamom powder.
2. In this bowl add milk little by little and make it smooth and  lump free batter.
3. Heat ghee in a nonstick pan and turn the flame slow and add batter in it.
4. Stir continuously so that the  colour of the rice batter will not change .
5. Within 3-4 minutes the rice batter  will cook and leave the pan.
6. Add Condensed Milk and Saffron in it.Stir continuously till it thickens and leaves the pan.
7. Make modak with the help of Modak mould.
8. Offer Rice Mava Modak to Ganpati Bappa with love, faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup Cashew powder.( Kaju)
• ½ cup Figs.(Anjeer)

Method

1. Dry roast Cashews and grind it in pulse mode and keep aside.
2. Wash Figs thoroughly 2-3 times  and roughly chop into small pieces.
3. Grind the Figs and keep aside.
4. In a mixing bowl mix both ingredients and knead into soft  dough like consistency.
5. Taste  dough, if you want more sweet then add 1 spoon Date syrup and by adding  syrup if it become sticky then mix  2- 3 spoon  extra Cashew powder.
6. Make Kaju Anjeer modak with the help of modak mould. Apply ghee on the mould to get proper shape and shine to the modak.
7. Offer Kaju Anjeer modak with love, faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• 200 g. Paneer
• ½ cup Milk powder
• ¼ cup Powdered Sugar.
• 1 tsp. Cardamom powder.
• Pinch of Saffron strands.

Method

1. In mortar add ½ spoon of milk and pinch of Saffron strands. With the help of pastel levigate saffron and keep aside.
2. Grate paneer with cheese grater and keep aside.
3. In a nonstick pan mix all ingredients and then cook it on a slow flame till it leaves the pan and gather to make a ball.
4. Switch off the flame and keep aside to cool down.
5. Make  Kesar Paneer Modak with the help of modak mould.
6. Offer Kesar Paneer Modak to Ganpati Bappa with love, faith and devotion.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup Roasted Peanuts.
• ½ cup  Sugar.
• 2 tbsp. Ghee.
• 1 tbsp. Dry Ginger powder ( optional)

Method

1. Roast peanuts in a nonstick pan.
2. Remove the skin of peanuts.
3. Grind peanuts and sugar together in a mixture grinder.
4. In a big mixing bowl mix peanut and sugar powder with ghee and dry ginger powder.Make modak with the help of modak mould.
5. Offer Peanut Modak to Ganpati Bappa with love faith and devotion.

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