Modak

Isn’t it fun having close family and friends come together for a festive occasion? Women folk working in the kitchen preparing delicacies – mixing, stuffing, steaming, cooking and of course, gossiping.  Hope you enjoyed the weekend celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi.

Ingredients

Rice flour - 1 cup

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Water - 1 &1/3 cup,or as needed

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 oil - 1 tsp

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Salt - If needed 

Wet dessicated coconut-1 cup (with heap)

Jaggery-1 cup

Boil water with oil(add salt if the flour doesn't have salt in it..mine had salt in it so I dint add any salt). Take the flour in a broad vessel. Add the boiling water little by little and mix with the help of a ladle.

1. Let it cool for about 5 min ,it may be warm, still knead with your hands to make a smooth dough.The consistency should be like our chapatti dough...non sticky..
2. Keep covered till you use to prevent drying. Make small lemon sized balls with the prepared dough.For each step or when ever needed grease your hands with  oil.
3. Prepare the stuffing.keep a wide pan on stove,pour the jaggery syrup & cocnut.mix well until it becomes a thick consistency.Add a little drop of ghee.Make small balls out of it.
4. Make the stuffing also same sized balls.Take a dough ball and start flattening the ball with your fingers around the sides .
5. Then continue towards the centre of the ball so that you make a bowl shape .Then keep the stuffing inside.
6. Gather all the sides and pinch together in the middle and make a modak shape .You can also do this process with modak maker.
7. Now follow the procedure to make some 8 and arrange it in a idly plate  or in a steamer and steam cook for 10 - 12 minutes.Now carefully take it out from the idly plate and your modak are ready!