Potato Modak | Ganesh chaturthi modak-Step by step photos & Video

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

Ingredients

• Rice flour -1.5 cups
• Salt to tate
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Boiling water as required
• Stuffing:-
• Potato - 1 [boiled]
• Gigner & Garlic - 1 tbsp
• Green chilli - 1 tbsp
• Turmeric -1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Chana dal, urad dal- 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Coriander, curry leaves - 1 spring
  

Method

Poornam (Stuffing)

• Heat oil in a pan, add mustars, chana, urad dal saute
• Add hing, curry leaves, ginger garlic, green chilli, onion saute
• Add Potato, turmeric, red chilli powder, salt saute for 2 min, mash well
• Add coriander leaves, cut off heat
• And this is called poornam (a stuffing which goes inside of the Kozhukkattai/modak).

Modak

• Take a bowl , add rice flour, salt & hot water mix well, cover lid, leave it for 5min.
• 5 min later, knead it to make soft 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.
  

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Modak Mould

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