HealthyeatsDay #GaneshChaturthi #11 Chocolate Modaks #Bidding adieu to Lord Ganesha 2020

Ingredients

1 Cup Fresh Chenna (Paneer) 

3 Tbsp Cocoa powder 

1/4 Cup Jaggery Powder 

1/2 Tsp Vanilla Essence

1 pinch Nutmeg powder

Prep Time - 10-15 mins

Cooking Time - 10 mins

Method 

1. Refer to the Chenna making method in my other recipe. I used 1. 5 litres of milk to make 1 Cup Chenna.

2. Either mash the Chenna with hands to remove lumps and make a smooth paste or quickly blend the Chenna along with Jaggery powder in a mixer grinder.

3. Heat a pan, add the Chenna and Jaggery mixture and on a low flame allow the Jaggery to melt.

4. Once the mixture is properly blended add cocoa powder, nut meg powder and vanilla essence. Cooking it for few more minutes, switch off the stove and let it cool down.

Now fill the moulds to give shapes of MODAKs.. Bidding adieu to Lord Ganesha on the day of Anantha Chaturdasi.. Feeling so blessed and divine..Pudhchya varshi lavkar ya 🙏❤️

HealthyeatsDay #GaneshChaturthi #10 Khoya Modaks (best from waste)

Ingredients

1 Cup Left over residue from ghee (khoya)

2 Tbsp Milk powder

2 Tbsp Milk 

1/2 Cup Powdered Jaggery 

2-3 Tbsp Grated Coconut 

1 pinch Nutmeg powder 

1 pinch Cardamom powder 

Prep Time - 10-15 mins 

Cooking Time - 10-15 mins 

Method 

1. Blend the ghee residue /khoya into Powdered form. 

2. Heat a thick bottom pan, add the Powdered khoya, Jaggery powder and saute it on low flame till the Jaggery powder melts. 

3. Now add Grated Coconut, milk powder and milk. Let it mix well and become a thick paste again stir it constantly and on a low flame. 

4. Now add Nutmeg and Cardamom powder and mix well. Switch off the pan and let it cool down. 

Once it cools down fill the Modak mould and serve them as a offering for Lord Ganesh.

HealthyeatsDay #GaneshChaturthi #8 Motichoor MODAKs

Ingredients

For making Boondi 

1 Cup Fine Besan (gram flour) 

3/4 Cup Water

1 pinch Baking Soda

1 pinch Turmeric powder (food colour optional)

1 1/2 Cups Oil /Ghee for frying

For making sugar syrup

1 Cup Sugar

1 Cup Water 

1 pinch Saffron strands 

1 pinch Powdered Cardamom 

Prep Time - 10-15 mins

Cooking Time - 30 mins 

Modak making time - 15 mins 

Method - 

Making Boondis:

1. In a bowl strain besan through a strainer. 

2. Slowly add water little by little whisking and mixing it through out. Make a smooth batter so that when you drop it with a spoon it should fall off as droplets but not as a continuous stream. 

3. Now add baking soda and Turmeric powder and let it aside. 

4. In a frying pan heat oil/ghee on a high flame. 

5. Add a Tsp oil in the batter and whisk it rigorously to built-in air. 

6. Using a frying strainer with medium holes punched in it and with a long handle. By holding this above the oil pan and putting a scoop of batter on the strainer allowing it to drip through the holes and and dropping them in the oil. Ensure that the the oil should be hot and on medium flame. Strain the boondis from the oil once crispy and cooked 

7. Repeat the same till the batter is finished. 

The boondis are ready. 

Making sugar syrup:

1. In a pan heat on a low flame add sugar and water along with saffron and Cardamom powder. 

2. Let the sugar melt in the water and become a sticky syrup. 

3. Now slowly add the boondis to the syrup and keep stirring and cooking it till the boondis completely absorbs the syrup. Once done let it  cool down completely. 

Now put them in Modak moulds and serve to Lord Ganesha as an offering. 

HealthyeatsDay #GaneshChaturthi #9 Ukadiche MODAKS

Ingredients

A. Sweet filling for MODAKs 

1/2 Cup Grated Coconut (preferably fresh)

1/4 Cup Powdered Jaggery

1 Crush Cardamom 

1 pinch Nutmeg powder 

1 Tsp Ghee 

1 Tbsp Water (If using dry coconut powder) 

B. For outer cover 

1/2 Cup Rice flour 

1/2 Boiling water 

1 pinch Salt 

1 Tsp Ghee 

1 Tsp Ghee (for greasing the moulds) 

Prep Time - 10-15 mins

Cooking Time - 30 mins

Method 

A. Making Sweet filling 

1. Heat ghee in a pan. 

2. Sauté coconut and Jaggery until both blends and mixture turns nice and thick. 

3. Add Cardamom powder and Nutmeg and switch off the stove. 

Keep it aside and let it cool down. 

B. Making Outer cover 

1. Heat water in a sauce pan with salt and ghee and once starts boiling add rice flour. 

2. Mix well till it forms a lump free dough. 3. Now cover it and let the dough steam in residual heat for 5-10 minutes. 

4. While the dough gets a little bit cool down, knead it nicely and make 7-8 small dough balls. 

5. Now grease the mould and layer the dough inside the mould and using fingers press the dough towards the sides of the mould leaving space in the center to fill the sweet filling about 1-2 Tsp. 

6. Now seal the bottom carefully with dough. 

7. Remove the Modak from the mould and place it on a butter paper or wet cloth and place it on a strainer. 

8. Repeat the steps from 1-7 for making the rest of the modaks. 

C. Steaming the Modaks. 

1. In a large boiler/vessels boil about 1 Cup of water and place the Modaks plate cover and steam them on hight flame for about 10 minutes. 

Bappa's favorite Ukadiche MODAKS are ready to be served as an offering. 

HealthyeatsDay #GaneshChaturthi #7 Anjeer Dry nuts MODAKs

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Chopped nuts (Mix of Cashew nuts, almonds, Pistachios, Walnuts)

1/2 Cup Dry Fruits (Mix ofSeedless Dates, Dry Fig/Anjeer, Raisins)

1/2 Tsp Ghee (clarified butter) - optional

1 pinch Nutmeg powder, Cardamom powder, Cinnamom powder

1-2 Tbsp Water 

 

Prep Time - 10-15 mins 

Cooking Time - 5-10 mins 

Method 

1. Dry roast nuts in a preheated steel pan until crunchy. Remove from pan and keep them aside. 

2. In a same heated pan put chopped fig with water to soften them. 

3. Now add dates, Raisins and sauté them for 5 mins or till it gets soft and mushy. Since it is a steel pan you can add ghee as it may tend to stick the pan.

4. Now add the Powdered Nutmeg, Cardamom, cinnamon along with Roasted nuts to the mixture and cook it for 2-3  minutes.

5. Once the mixture gets firm, switch off the heat and let it cool down.

6. Now fill the mixture into the Modak mould and give them shapes of MODAKs. 

Serve as an offering to Lord Ganesha.

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.

HealthyeatsDay #5 Ganesh Chaturthi Special # Oats, Dry fruits Jaggery MODAKs

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Rolled oats (Roasted) 

1/4 Cup Powdered Organic Jaggery

4 Tbsp Saffron soaked Milk

1/4 Cup Roasted Dry Fruits (Almond, Cashew, Walnuts)

1/2 Tsp Ghee (clarified butter) 

Prep Time - 5 mins 

Cooking Time - 5 mins 

Method

1. Roast oats and dry fruits in a thick base pan.

2. Once it's cools down, coarsely grind it into a Powdered form. 

3. Heat the same pan again and add Powdered oats and dry fruits mixture, Jaggery, milk and ghee. 

4. Cook it on a low flame for 5 minutes or till it thickens. 

Once the mixture cools down, fill it in the Modak moulds and give it shape of modaks.

Serve it as an offering to Lord Ganesha.

HealthyeatsDay #4 Ganesh Chaturthi Special # Khajur Modak

Ingredients -

100 gm Seedless Dates

6-7 no Whole almonds /Cashew nuts

Prep Time - 10-15 mins 

Method-

Fill dates in the half side of the Modak mould and fill one nut in the center and cover with dates and close the other side of mould. 

Your Khajur /Dates Modak is ready to be served as an offering to Lord Ganesha. 

HealthyeatsDay #3 Ganesh Chaturthi Special # Kalakand

Ingredients - 

100 gm Grated Paneer 

50 gm Milk maid 

2 Tbsp Milk Powder 

1/4 Tsp Cardamom powder

Few Strands Kesar (Saffron) 

1 - 2 Almond (Chopped) 

Prep Time - 5 mins 

Cooking Time - 5 mins (Excludes 15 mins of cooling off time and 5 mins for making modak ) 

Method (Convection Microwave method) 

1. Preheat the oven at 180 deg. 

2. In a microwave safe glass dish /bowl take Paneer, Milk maid, milk powder and Cardamom powder and mix it together. 

3. Place it in preheated oven and start. 

4. After 3 minutes, remove the bowl from the oven and stir. Again put it back in oven and bake it further for 2 more minutes. 

5. After total 5 mins of baking time, remove the bowl from the oven and let it cool down. 

7. Add chopped almonds, kesar to this mixture and put it Modak moulds to make around 7 small sized modaks. 

Serve the MODAKs as prasad or offerings to Ganapati Bappa. 

HealthyeatsDay#1 Ganesh Chaturthi Special - Coconut Modaks

Ingredients -

200 gm Grated Coconut

1 Cup Milk maid (200 gm) 

4 Tbsp Milk powder 

2 Tsp Ghee (clarified butter)

1/2 Tsp Powdered Cardamom

Prep Time - 5 mins 

Cooking Time - 6 mins (Excludes 20 mins of cooling off time and 5-10 mins for making ladoos/modaks) 

Method (Convection Microwave method) 

1. Preheat the oven at 180 deg. 

2. In a microwave safe glass dish /bowl take grated coconut and ghee and mix it together. 

3. Place it in preheated oven and start. 

4. After 3 minutes, remove the bowl from the oven and add milk maid, milk powder, and Powdered Cardamom. Again put it back in oven and press Start. 

5. After total 6 mins of baking time, remove the bowl from the oven and let it cool down. 

6. Put it Modak moulds and make Coconut modaks to be served as prasad or offerings to Ganapati Bappa.

HealthyeatsDay#2 Ganesh Chaturthi Special - Besan Modak and ladoos

Ingredients- 

150 gm Organic Besan (gram flour) 

75 gm Jaggery powder 

3 Tbsp Ghee (clarified butter) melted 

1/4 Tsp Cardamom powder 

Prep Time - 5 mins 

Cooking Time - 7 mins (Excludes 20 mins of cooling off time and 5 mins for making ladoos) 

Method (Convection Microwave method) 

1. Preheat the oven at 180 deg. 

2. In a microwave safe glass dish /bowl take Besan and ghee and mix it together. 

3. Place it in preheated oven and start. 

4. After 3 minutes, remove the bowl from the oven and stir. Again put it back in oven and press Start. 

5. Again after 2 minutes, remove the bowl from oven and stir. Again put it back in oven and press Start. 

6. After total 7 mins of baking time, remove the bowl from the oven and let it cool down. 

7. Add Powdered Jaggery and cardamom powder. Mix it well and make ladoos or put it Modak moulds and make Besan modaks to be served as prasad or offerings to Ganapati Bappa.