Ukadiche Modak Recipe: Lord Ganesha loves Modak very much. Therefore, if you make Modak at home or offer it to him on this special festival, then Lord Ganesha will be especially blessed. Let us know in which easy ways you can make modak at home.
Ukadiche Modak
Ukadiche Modak Recipe: According to the Hindu calendar, this year the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi will be celebrated on 14 September. Devotees are busy preparing for the arrival of Ganpati Bappa. In Hindu religious texts, this festival is considered very special and beneficial for human life. At the same time, many devotees also keep fast of Lord Ganesha, so that all the troubles and sorrows of their life go away and they can get the blessings of Ganpati Bappa.
Lord Ganesha loves Modak very much. Therefore, if you make Modak at home or offer it to him on this special festival, then Lord Ganesha will be especially blessed. Let us know in which easy ways you can make modak at home.
Ingredients for making Ukadiche Modak
- Grated fresh coconut – 2 cups
- Grated fine jaggery – 1 cup
- Nutmeg powder – 1/4 tsp
- Cardamom powder – 1/2 tsp
- Poppy seeds – 1 tsp
- Ghee- 1 tsp
- for outer covering
- Rice flour- 1.5 cups
Water- 1.5 cups - Milk- 2 tbsp
- Ghee- 1 tsp
- a pinch of salt
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Step-by-step recipe
- First of all, heat some ghee in a pan and roast the poppy seeds lightly.
- Now add grated coconut and jaggery in the same pan, then cook it while stirring on low flame till the jaggery melts.
- Now mix cardamom and nutmeg powder and turn off the gas.
- Now add water, a little milk, a spoon of ghee and a pinch of salt in another vessel and boil it well.
- As soon as the water boils, slow down the flame, add rice flour to it and mix it while stirring continuously with a spoon.
- After this, turn off the gas and cover the vessel and leave it in steam for 2-3 minutes.
- Now take out this lukewarm flour in a big plate.
- Make small balls of the kneaded dough. Now press one dough ball with your fingers to make it thin from the edges and give it a shape like a small bowl.
- Now heat water in a steamer or idli making vessel and apply some ghee on its plate.
- Place all the modaks on the plate at a distance and sprinkle a little water over them.
- Cover the vessel and let it steam for 10 to 12 minutes on medium flame.
- Bappa’s favorite hot Ukdiche Modaks are ready.
