Ukadiche Modak Recipe
Ukadiche Modak Recipe
Cuisine: MaharashtrianUkadiche Modak Recipe: Ukadiche Modak is a traditional Maharashtrian sweet dumpling filled with a mixture of jaggery, coconut, and cardamom, encased in rice flour dough. It’s a popular sweet made during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
Ingredients
½ cup Rice Flour
½ cup Water
2 tsp Ghee
A pinch of Salt
s 1 cup Coconut, shredded
v½ cup Jaggery, grated
1 tsp Poppy Seeds, roasted
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
Directions
- For the filling
- Heat a pan and put jaggery in it
- When jaggery starts melting, add 1 tsp Ghee and coconut to it
- Mix well and cook on medium heat for 5-6 mins
- Add cardamom powder and roasted poppy seeds
- Filling is ready, keep aside to cool
- For the covering
- Boil ½ cup water, add ghee to it
- Add rice flour to boiling water and miz well stirring continuously
- Add salt, mix well and cook covered for 2-3 mins
- Remove from heat and knead well into a soft flour when its hot
- Putting it all together
- Divide the dough into small balls
- Roll each ball to size of puris
- Place this on the palm and add some filling to it
- Bring together the ends in form of plates and form a tip and seal
- Repeat the procedure for rest of the modaks
- Put these modaks in a steamer/cooker
