Vinayaka Modak
Steamed rice dumplings with coconut-jaggery. Ganesh Chaturthi Telangana special.
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Ingredients
- Cardamom Powder — 2 g
- Fresh Coconut — 200 g
- Jaggery — 180 g
- Coconut Oil — 15 g
- Rice Flour — 200 g
- Water — 350 g
- salt — 2 g
Method
- Cook grated coconut and jaggery with 50 ml water, stirring often.
- Add cardamom once the mix turns thick and sticky. Cool.
- Boil the remaining water with salt and 1 spoon coconut oil.
- Add rice flour on low flame and stir into a soft dough.
- Cover and rest until warm, then knead smooth with oiled hands.
- Press a ball into a cup and pinch pleats around the edge.
- Fill with coconut mix, gather pleats and seal into a pointed top.
- Steam on an oiled plate until the modaks look glossy.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Vinayaka Modak?
- 297 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 50 min — 30 min prep, 20 min cooking.