Traditional Modak Recipe Ukadiche Modak Or Steamed Modak. Some modak may crack while shaping or steaming, buts it is fine. You can forgive yourself if you are making this first time. Easy way to make Traditional, Authentic Modaks which is nothing but a rice flour dumpling with sweet jaggery and coconut n nuts filling.

Place a thin cotton cloth in a wide bowl or steam basket. Modak, Steamed Modak made with mould and handmade modak with detailed step by step recipes. Modak is a sweet dumpling stuffed with a filling of Ukadiche Modak which is steamed modak is specially made during the first day of Ganesh Chaturti to welcome him. You can have Traditional Modak Recipe Ukadiche Modak Or Steamed Modak using 17 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Traditional Modak Recipe Ukadiche Modak Or Steamed Modak

You need of For the outer modak covering.
Prepare 1 cup of rice flour.
It's 1.5 cups of water.
Prepare 1 tsp of pure ghee.
It's 1 pinch of salt.
You need of For the filling.
It's 1.5 cup of fresh grated coconut.
Prepare 1/2 cup of grated jaggery.
Prepare 3-4 of green cardamoms (grounded.
You need 1 tsp of rice flour.
Prepare 1 tsp of pure ghee.
Prepare 1 pinch of nutmeg powder.
Prepare 1 tsp of poppy seed (roasted).
You need 5 of almonds (sliced).
Prepare 1 tbsp of raisins (optional).
It's 1 tsp of chironji (optional).
It's 6-7 of sliced pistachios (optional).

Easy way to make Traditional, Authentic Modaks which is nothing but a rice flour dumpling with sweet jaggery and coconut n nuts filling. Lord Ganesh's Favorite sweet, made specially for Ganesh Chaturthi. Hence it is called steamed modak recipe. It has sweet stuffing in the center.

Traditional Modak Recipe Ukadiche Modak Or Steamed Modak step by step

For the stuffing, combine the coconut, ghee and jaggery in a heavy or non-stick pan..
Cook it on medium heat for about 3 to 4 minutes. Make sure that you do not overcook the mixture. Add the roasted poppy seeds, grounded cardamom, nutmeg powder and other remaining filling ingredients. Mix well and keep aside..
In a thick bottomed pan heat the water alongwith ghee and pinch of salt.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and add the rice flour in a steady flow, stirring continuously to prevent lumps from forming.
Now cook this mixture on very low heat for about 2 to 3 minutes.
Now switch off the flame and cover this pan with lid for 4 to 5 minutes.
Now take this dough in a big bowl or palte. And knead it very well and this time dough will be hot. So apply some normal water on your palm and knead the dough very well..
If dough looks hard or dry, then just add little bit of warm water and continue to knead dough till completely smooth and pliable. Rest the dough covered with a damp cloth..
Assembling & shaping the modaks.
(A). Take a small ball from the dough.Roll thinly (with the help of your hands) in to a circle of about 3-4 inches diameter. Gently take this circle on your palm..
(B). Now add the filling in the center.
(C). Pinch the edges one by one. Bring together all the pinched folds in the center.
(D). Make all modaks this way and keep aside. Cover with a cotton napkin.
Steaming--I used electrical rice cooker for steaming, it is very easy procedure.
But i also explained the method without electric rice cooker.
First of all cover a flat, steel sifter with a damp cloth and keep the modaks on it.
Carefully place the sifter into a steamer or pressure cooker (without whistle) and steam them for about 15 minutes.
After steaming, drizzle a few teaspoons of pure ghee on the modaks. And now the traditional ukadiche modaks are ready to be offer to lord Ganesha….

Ukadiche Modak Recipe(steamed modak) - one of my favorite sweet are sweet dumplings made from rice flour. The stuffing is mainly made from grated coconut and jaggery. Ukadiche Modak is very popular in Maharashtra, where the word Ukadiche literally means steamed. First, the rice flour dough is shaped into dumplings and then those dumplings are steamed in a steamer or a broad pan. The traditional stuffing for these Ukadiche Modak is made of Coconuts.