Happy Vinayaka Chaturthi! - May Lord Ganesha bestow you power, destroy your sorrow and enhance happiness in your life.
This year I made the ever so trending turmeric pillayar. Below is my version of the eco-friendly pillayar. As for the modagams, I used to love this gulkand milkshake that we used to have back in India. I was missing it so much during these covid times, so I incorporated the gulkand flavour to our modagams this year. Scroll down for the recipe.
Yields: 25
small modagams
Ingredients:
1 cup –
Fresh Grated Coconut
½ cup –
Rose Gulkand
1 cup - Rice
Flour
Few drops
of Rose Syrup (depends on the brand of syrup used)
1 teaspoon –
Rose water
Poppy Seeds
– 2 teaspoons (Optional, I used White sesame seeds instead)
1 teaspoon
- Salt
1 cup or
more – Water
1 tsp + 2
tsp - Ghee
Method:
- Heat 2
teaspoons of ghee in a pan. Add the sesame seeds and roast it briefly.
- Add the fresh
grated coconut to the pan and fry for a few minutes on medium flame. Now add
the gulkand, mix and sauté for 4-5 minutes. Remove from heat. Gulkand stuffing
is ready.
- For the
outer layer: In a pan, heat about 1 cup water along with 1 teaspoon salt and 1
teaspoon ghee.
- As the
water begins to boil add the rice flour and keep stirring. Make sure there are
no big lumps.
- Switch
off the flame and cover the pan and let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Now
transfer the rice flour to a bowl and add the rose water and rose syrup.
- While the
mixture is hot, crumble and knead well to form a soft dough. Sprinkle some
water if the dough is too hard.
- Divide
the dough into small portions and make the outer layer, add in the stuffing and
crimp the edges together to form the modagam shape. If using a modagam mould:
Grease your mould with ghee. Close the mould and place a dough ball inside, press
down the sides of the mould to make space in the center. Fill in the coconut
stuffing and with a small portion of the dough, cover the base of the modagam.
Gently unmould the modagam and repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Steam
the prepared modagams for 10 minutes. Rose gulkand modagam is ready.
Recipe
adapted from sakhisolutions.com.