Recipe: Tasty Fried Mawa Modak

Fried Mawa Modak.

You can cook Fried Mawa Modak using 13 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Fried Mawa Modak

1. It's of Covering.
2. It's 1 cup of wheat flour.
3. It's 1 cup of maida.
4. It's 2 tablespoons of fine semolina.
5. Prepare 3 tablespoons of ghee.
6. You need of Mawa Filling.
7. It's 1-1/2 cup of grated mawa.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of shredded coconut.
9. It's 1/4 cup of brown sugar/ white sugar or jaggery powder.
10. It's 1 teaspoon of ghee.
11. You need 3/4 cup of chopped pistachios, cashews, almonds and raisins.
12. Prepare 1 teaspoon of green cardamom powder.
13. Prepare 2 cups of oil or ghee for deep frying.

Fried Mawa Modak instructions

1. Sieve together all flours..
2. Heat ghee. Add hot ghee to the flour mixture..
3. Mix with a spoon. Then make a crumble like mixture by mixing with fingers..
4. Knead a soft dough by adding water little by little. Apply drops of ghee, cover an keep aside..
5. Keep things ready for the mawa filling.
6. In a pan heat ghee and add the dry fruit mixture.
7. Add coconut and roast until the mixture become a little dry..
8. Add mawa and roast..
9. Now add brown sugar and roast..
10. Finally add cardamom powder and mix everything until it becomes like a one doughy mass..
11. Filling is ready. Let it cool down completely..
12. Pinch a big lemon sized dough, roll into thin disc. Cut small circles out of it..
13. Use sharp edged cups or cookie cutter..
14. Keep 1 teaspoon of the stuffing in the centre of the small prepared discs. Cover by pleating and pinching them together as shown in the picture..
15. Add a small piece of dough and check if oil is ready..
16. If oil bubbles and dough comes up, it means the oil is perfect. Add modaks and fry until golden..
17. Keep stirring the modaks for even colour..
18. Offer to God and eat after distributing tasty prasadams to friends, neighbours and family..