Hi friends, Ganesh Festival is on and I am sure I am not late to post this recipe. We all are aware of making various kinds of modak or modakam for ganesha the destroyer of obstacles known as vignaharta too.
I keep one and half days ganpati at home and do the pooja like Maharashtrians as well as South Indian. Pooja is performed the way we perform chanting the 108 mantras of Ganesha. Aarti I follow the Maharashtrian style.
The idea came to my mind to keep Ganesha for 3 years in 2009. When I expressed my views at home, my son said not this year, next year. I was bit disappointed and had to agree with his views. Unfortunately that year my mother in law passed away. But the Ganesha had to come to our house.
You will wonder how? My husband used to listen to the radio programme in which Malishka, the RJ announced that the third and ninth caller will get an eco friendly ganpati. My husband was the third caller and we got the ganpati and was brought home. It was such a beautiful ganpati.
However, we started bringing the idol and performing pooja from 2010 onwards.
Till today, however, I am continuing by the grace of god though I had planned to keep only for 3 years.
Coming back to the recipe. For neivedyam I was thinking what to make and tried this modak which was not very sweet but liked by everyone.
Total time taken: 1 hour
Yield: 30
Ingredients:
1 cup poha, flattend rice, aval
3 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar (if you want more sweet add)
1/4 tsp cardamom powder
dry fruits like kaju, badam, pista slighly roasted and crushed.
ghee for frying the dry fruits.
3 tbsp ghee.
Method:
Dry roast the poha in high flame, allow to cool. make a powder of it in the mixer.
heat ghee in kadai, fry the dry fruits lightly, keep aside and crush
in the same kadai, add the ghee, put the poha powder and fry for two to three minutes.
add the milk, sugar and cook till the milk is evaporated and you get a mass out of it. add in the crushed dry fruits and cardamom powder. allow to cool.
take a modak mould, apply little ghee and fill the mould with the mixer and make the modaks.
poha modak is ready for neivedyam.
Note: You can add dry fruits, coconut etc. as per your choice.
I keep one and half days ganpati at home and do the pooja like Maharashtrians as well as South Indian. Pooja is performed the way we perform chanting the 108 mantras of Ganesha. Aarti I follow the Maharashtrian style.
The idea came to my mind to keep Ganesha for 3 years in 2009. When I expressed my views at home, my son said not this year, next year. I was bit disappointed and had to agree with his views. Unfortunately that year my mother in law passed away. But the Ganesha had to come to our house.
You will wonder how? My husband used to listen to the radio programme in which Malishka, the RJ announced that the third and ninth caller will get an eco friendly ganpati. My husband was the third caller and we got the ganpati and was brought home. It was such a beautiful ganpati.
However, we started bringing the idol and performing pooja from 2010 onwards.
Till today, however, I am continuing by the grace of god though I had planned to keep only for 3 years.
Coming back to the recipe. For neivedyam I was thinking what to make and tried this modak which was not very sweet but liked by everyone.
Total time taken: 1 hour
Yield: 30
Ingredients:
1 cup poha, flattend rice, aval
3 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar (if you want more sweet add)
1/4 tsp cardamom powder
dry fruits like kaju, badam, pista slighly roasted and crushed.
ghee for frying the dry fruits.
3 tbsp ghee.
Method:
Dry roast the poha in high flame, allow to cool. make a powder of it in the mixer.
heat ghee in kadai, fry the dry fruits lightly, keep aside and crush
in the same kadai, add the ghee, put the poha powder and fry for two to three minutes.
add the milk, sugar and cook till the milk is evaporated and you get a mass out of it. add in the crushed dry fruits and cardamom powder. allow to cool.
take a modak mould, apply little ghee and fill the mould with the mixer and make the modaks.
poha modak is ready for neivedyam.
Note: You can add dry fruits, coconut etc. as per your choice.
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