HealthyeatsDay #Ganesh Chaturthi Special #6 Chena Jaggery MODAKs

Ingredients-

• 1/2 liter Milk
• 1 tsp White vinegar , or lime juice
• 2 Tbsp Powdered Jaggery 
• 2 Tbsp cup Milk Powder
• 2 Tbsp Condensed Milk
• 1/2 Cardamom (Elaichi)Pods/Seeds ,crushed
• 1/4  tsp Ghee (clarified butter) 
• 1 tsp Pistachios , chopped (optional) 
• 1-2 Strands of Saffron 

PrepTime- 10 mins 

Cooking Times -10 mins

Method-

1. Bring milk to boiling point and add lime juice. The milk will start curdling and whey gets separated from chena. Strain and Wash it under running water to remove taste/ smells of lemon. The chena/paneer is ready. 

2. Mash the chena coarsely, adding jaggery powder, condensed milk, cardamom powder, and ghee mix it well.

3. Now in a pre heated thick bottom pan add this mixture. 

4. Once the jaggery starts dissolving and add milk powder. Cook it on a medium flame stirring it constantly until it thickens. 

5. Remove it from the heat and add chopped pistachios and garnish it with saffron. Let it cool down. Now fill up the modak moulds and give them shape of modaks. 

Serve it as an offering to Lord Ganesha.