Modak - Steamed Dessert Dumpling
Preparation Time:- 1 Hour
Serves:- 7-8
Ingredients:-
For the filling:
Serves:- 7-8
Ingredients:-
For the filling:
- Shredded fresh coconut – 2 cup
- Jaggery – 1 cup
- Roasted poppy seeds – 1 tsp
- Rice flour – 1 tsp
- Cardamoms - 4
- Rice flour – 1 cup
- Water – 1 cup
- Ghee – 1 tsp
- Oil – ½ tsp
- A pinch of salt
Method:-
Method for the filling:
- Combine and cook coconut and jaggery together on medium heat. Stir continuously until they are mixed properly. Do not overcook.
- Add cardamom, roasted poppy seeds and 1 tea spoon rice flour to the mix. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow it to cool.
Method for outer cover:
- Boil 1 cup of water. When bubbles rise on top, add ghee, salt and oil and immediately add rice flour. Stir well.
- Cover for some time. Remove the lid and stir and cover again for a minute.
- Remove from heat. Take all the mixture in a flat plate. Knead it properly while hot (You can use a flat bowl for kneading to keep the hands from burning). Make a soft pliable dough.
- Do it very carefully. The dough should be neither too sticky nor too dry.
Method for the modak:
- Divide this dough into small balls. Roll each ball into 1.5" diameter circle.
- Hold it in a hand and make a small bowl of it. Put some coconut filling into this bowl shaped dough.
- Dip thumb and index finger in the oil and make 5-6 small pinches side by side on the edges of the bowl. Bring them together, join to form a peak. It should look like whole garlic.
- Prepare all other modaks like this.
- Spread a damp cloth onto a flat round sifter and arrange all the modaks onto it. Place the sifter in a steamer and cover. Steam for about 15 minutes.
- Use a big size saucepan or pressure cooker if you don't have a steamer. Do not put the whistle if you use the pressure cooker.
- Serve with the ghee.
