Modak | Ganesh chaturthi modak | Ukadiche modak | Kozhukattai | Mothagam-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, india | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 5 | Type: Festival special recipes

Ingredients

• Rice flour – 2 cup
• Water as required[apr.1 ¾ cup]
• Salt – pinch
• Ghee – 1 tbsp
• Grated coconut – ½ cup
• Cardamom powder – ½ tbs
• Bengal gram – ½ cup
• Jaggery – 150 g

Method

Poornam (Stuffing)

• Soak Bengal gram for 2 hours, pressure cook (1 or 2 whitles) then mash it.
• Grate & cook jaggery till melts (add rops of water).
• Add grated coconut, mashed Bengal gram sauté for 2 minutes.
• Add pinch of salt and cardamom powder.
• Mix all together well.
• And this is called poornam (a stuffing which goes inside of the Kozhukkattai/modak).

Modak

• Take rice flour in a thick big pan; add water & salt mix well.
• Heat pan then pour rice flour mixture & stir consistency in medium heat (to avoid lumps) till you get chapatti dough consistency.
• Grease modak mould with ghee then fill the inner walls with rice flour dough mixture & leave some space for filling stuffing(poornam).
• Now fill the stuffing and seal the bottom of the modak bottom. Then demould & steam for 5 to 10 minutes. Then serve hot.
  

Modak Mould

How to make Modak / mothagam- Stepwise pictures[Instant& Quick]

Wash & soak bengal gram for 1 hour

Boil bengal gram

Put boiled bengal gram and coconut in a mixer jar & coarsely grind

Grate coconut

Ground bengal gram is ready, add grated coconut, mix well

Add green cardamom powder

Add jaggery, water in a pan, let it melt and cook till thick syrup consistency

Add jaggery syrup mix well

Kadalai paruppu vellam poornam/ Bengal gram jaggery stuffing is ready

Add rice flour, water & salt mix well

Heat pan stir continuously till you get soft dough consistency

Kozhukattai dough is ready, add sesame oil, knead it & make soft dough

Place lemon size ball, place it in a modak mould & evenly spread

Outer layer of modak is ready

Place poornam

Poornam filled modak is ready

Close it with rice flour dough mixture

Remove raw modak from mould

Kadalai paruppu modak is ready

Before stemming modak/After demould

Take lemon size ball, shape circle

Place bengal gram kadalai stuffing / paruppu vellam poornam

Close shape like half circle

Place half circle kozhukattai in idli plates steam it

Place modak in an idli plates

Place prepared kozhukattai in idli cooker, steam it for 8 min

Kadalai paruppu mothagam is ready

Modak with 3 shapes

Ukadiche modak