Modaks are steamed or fried dumplings made from rice flour, wheat flour or maida and have fillings including grated coconut, dried fruits and jaggery.

Fried modak

By Vidya Vijayan

Jan, 25th

654

Servings

2 persons

Cook Time

20 minutes

Ingredients

6 - 8

Ingredients

1)Atta-4cup
2) salt as required
3)grated dry/fresh coconut-1cup
4)elachi crushed-4
5) water as required
6) ghee-4table spoon
7) sugar/jaggery as required
8) oil

Instructions

1)Dough:In a bowl, take atta,add salt and water and adjust consistency to make dough out of it and then make balls and roll into small size and keep it aside.
2) Stuffing:Mix all ingredients like grated coconut, sugar/jaggery and elachi.
3) Shaping:Make shapes of modak out of dough and fill the prepared stuffing that is kept aside.

4) Frying: Deep fry modaks in oil.

Notes/Tips

1) Can make use of maida instead of atta. 2)Can make use of jaggery instead of sugar.

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