Whole Wheat Flour Fried Modak For Ganesh Chaturthi

Ingredients

For Outer layer

• 1 cup maida or Wheat flour

• ¼ cup water or as needed

• 2 tbsp ghee

• 1 pinch of Salt

Stuffing

• 1 tsp ghee

• 1 cup Grated coconut

• ½ cup Jaggery powdered

• ¼ tsp Cardamom  powder

Method (How to make modak at home for ganpati festival)

For stuffing

• In a pan, add ghee, grated coconut and fry  coconut till water evaporate, add jaggery, cardamom powder and mix well.

• Cook over medium flame until the jaggery melts and again becomes thick and start leaving the sides. Keep for cool down completely.

For dough

• Add melted ghee and salt into the aata or maida and mix well add water and make a little stif dough. Let the dough be stiff, not too loose.

• Make small balls with dough and roll into small chapaties.

• Make equal sizes balls with the coconut filling.

• Keep one ball of stuffing in the middle of the small chapati.

• Pleet it on the top and pinch to seal it. Repeat to finish all, in the same way.

• Heat enough oil or ghee in the kadhai, once hot, put the flame to medium. Drop few modaks at a time. Cook in medium or low flame until light golden from all sides, drain in paper towels.

• Fry all modak with the same manner and serve.