Recipe
Ukadiche Modak/Steamed, sweet rice dumlings
Ingredients
Filling/puran - 2 cups shredded fresh coconut, 1-1 ½ cup jaggery, roasted poppy se
eds (khaskhas), fresh cardamom powder, resins (optional)
Dough/Ukad - 2 cups water, 2 cups rice flour, pinch of salt, 1 tbsp oil, ½ tbsp ghee
How to make
Filling/Puran
- In a thick bottom pan combine shredded coconut and jaggery.
- Cook by continuously stirring it on medium heat.
- In the beginning, mixture will become little watery and immediately it will start to thicken up.
- Cook till the mixture becomes brownish in color.
- At this point add roasted poppy seeds and cardamom powder and resins.
- Mix everythin and keep aside
- Allow it to cool.
Dough/Ukad
- Boil water in a container.
- When bubbles start rising on the top, add oil or ghee (clarified butter)and salt
- Immediately add rice flour and stir continuously to mix up.
- Cover up for 5 min.
- Transfer the entire content in a mixing bowl.
- Kneed the cooked flour to make soft pliable dough.
Making Modak
- Make small balls (smaller than lemon) one at a time.
- Now hold it and spread it evenly in such a way that it would form bowl shape.
- Now place 1 tbsp filling in the middle.
- Dip thumb and index finger in the oil and make 5-6 small pinches side by side on the edges of the bowl and bring them together to form a peak.
- It should look like a whole garlic.
- Follow the same method for rest of the modaks.
- Now arrange all modaks on steaming rack or bamboo steamer.
- Steam them for 15-20 miutes.
- Switch off the gas when modak turns shiny in appearance.
- Serve hot with ghee on the top.
Tips
- For making modaks ratio of rice flour and water is very important. (1:1). Using above recipe, 15-16 medium size modaks can be prepared.