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Sweet modak / Sweet dumpling

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Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Course sweet
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Rice flour
  • 1/2 cup Coconut (scrapped)
  • 1/2 cup Jaggery
  • 1/2 cup Sesame seeds
  • 1/2 cup Fried gram (powdered)
  • 2 tbsps Sugar

Instructions
 

  • Once the heat is bearable we can use our hands to kneed it .
  • Close it and keep it aside so that it will not dry.

Stuffing 1

  • Take half cup of scrapped coconut add it to the pan, dry roast till the moisture evaporates.
  • Now add 1/4 cup of jaggery to the pan and saute it with the coconut.
  • Once the jaggery melts switch off the flame. Our first filling is ready now.
  • Grease the mold with oil . Take the prepared rice flour dough and spread it in the mold , leave some space in the middle for the stuffings.
  • Now fill the stuffing inside and close it with dough. Now this is ready to be steamed.

Stuffing 2

  • Take half cup of black sesame seeds, dry roast them on pan until 1 or 2 starts popping.
  • Now add the jaggery to this and saute. Switch off the flame when the jaggery melts and everything is mixed well. Our second stuffing is ready now. 
  • Grease the mold with oil.Take the prepared rice flour dough and spread it in the mold , leave some space in the middle for the stuffings. Now fill the stuffing inside and close it with dough. Now this is ready to be steamed.

Stuffing 3

  • Take half cup of powdered fried gram.
  • Dry roast it for a minute and add the sugar along with it.
  • Saute it well for 2 mins. we can use it as a stuffing directly or mix it with our first stuffing ( jaggery +coconut) with this. Here I have taken 2 tbsps of fried gram powder stuffing we prepared along with coconut jaggery stuffing. Now our third stuffing is ready.
  • Following the same procedure as first and second stuffing,  grease the mold and fill the dough and stuffing.

Steaming

  • Now all our modak is ready to be steamed. Pour some water in the steamer and place the prepared modak.
  • Steam cook them for 15 to 20 minutes on a medium flame. Now our ganesh chadurthi modak is ready as prasadam.
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