Source : Sieve Together All Flours Heat Ghee Add Hot Ghee To The Flour Mixture Mix With A Spoon Then Make A Crumble Like Mixture By Mixing With Fingers Knead ...
PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings
Sent by PV Iyer
at : September 2, 2025
Step:
Sieve together all flours.
Heat ghee. Add hot ghee to the flour mixture.
Mix with a spoon. Then make a crumble like mixture by mixing with fingers.
Knead a soft dough by adding water little by little. Apply drops of ghee, cover an keep aside.
Keep things ready for the mawa filling
In a pan heat ghee and add the dry fruit mixture
Add coconut and roast until the mixture become a little dry.
Add mawa and roast.
Now add brown sugar and roast.
Finally add cardamom powder and mix everything until it becomes like a one doughy mass.
Filling is ready. Let it cool down completely.
Pinch a big lemon sized dough, roll into thin disc. Cut small circles out of it.
Use sharp edged cups or cookie cutter.
Keep 1 teaspoon of the stuffing in the centre of the small prepared discs. Cover by pleating and pinching them together as shown in the picture.
Add a small piece of dough and check if oil is ready.
If oil bubbles and dough comes up, it means the oil is perfect. Add modaks and fry until golden.
Keep stirring the modaks for even colour.
Offer to God and eat after distributing tasty prasadams to friends, neighbours and family.
Ingredients
Covering
1 cup wheat flour
1 cup maida
2 tablespoons fine semolina
3 tablespoons ghee
Mawa Filling
1-1/2 cup grated mawa
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/4 cup brown sugar/ white sugar or jaggery powder
1 teaspoon ghee
3/4 cup chopped pistachios, cashews, almonds and raisins
1 teaspoon green cardamom powder
2 cups oil or ghee for deep frying
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