Semolina-Coconut Modak

Name: Semolina-Coconut Modak
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 Cup fine semolina/sooji; 1/2 cup fresh shreded coconut; 1/2 Cup Powdered sugar; 1 cup milk; 3 tsp milk powder; 2 tsp saffron milk; 4 Chopped Cashews; 4 Almonds chopped; 1/2 Cardamom powder; 3 tsp Clarified butter

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Modak is a popular Hindu sweet dessert, which is especially made in abundance during Ganesh Chaturthi every year.
Prepare this recipe on Ganesh Chaturthi and make your festival special with your family

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Ingredients

1/2 Cupfine semolina/sooji
1/2 cupfresh shreded coconut
1/2 CupPowdered sugar
1 cupmilk
3 tspmilk powder
2 tspsaffron milk
4Chopped Cashews
4Almonds chopped
1/2Cardamom powder
3 tspClarified butter

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Steps

1

In a heavy bottom pan/ kadhai add fine sooni. Roast sooji for 5-7 minutes. Then add 1 tsp ghee into sooji & roast.
2

Add chopped nuts into well roasted sooji. Then add milk powder & stir well.
3

Once roasted, add 3/4 cup milk into sooji & stir quickly so no lump can occure. Continue stirring. Then add more milk to cook the sooji soft.Add saffron milk. This will get nice taste & color to sooji. Cover sooji for 3-4 min & cook.
Add shreded coconut into cooked sooji. Mix coconut well & cook more. You can add coconut into sooji while roasting. So that coconut will get roasted with sooji.
4

Add sugar powder & stir well & cook.
Once cooked add ghee. Cover the sooji mixture & keep aside to cool.
Add cardamom powder.
5

Sooji mixture is ready to make modak. Now take a modak mould. Apply ghee into each part of the mould
Place one saffron strand & one piece of pistachio into the compartment of each mould.
Then fill each part from one side of mould with the sooji mixture. Fold the mould & fill other part of mould with mixture. Fill & press tightly. This makes a good shape to modak.
6

Then open the mould. Remove carefully each modak from the mould. Delicious modaks are ready. Demould modak & serve Lord ganesha as a prasad.