Sunday, August 23, 2009

Modak for Lord Ganesha~Happy Vinayaka Chathurthi!!

Wishing you all a very Happy Vinayaka Chathurthi!!!

There’s festival spirit all around and people are gearing up to celebrate the festival season with this one being the first of the lot after “Aadi/Karkadakom/Aashada” month.I can’t wait too..:).Today is “Athachamayam” too ie the first day for adorning houses with Pookalam for Onam.Diet/exercise days,please go and take a break..I am going to forget you for a while..;)

Vinayaka Chathurthi was a very special festival for us children,mainly in terms of the food[sweets,rather]that was offered as naivedyam.We looked forward to the Modak,Kozhukkatais and all the yummy sweets that were offered to Lord Ganesha.

Modak to us is a fried sweet with plaintains and rice flour/maida.I am sure many of you are nodding your heads in disbelief,but it’s a fact.The other one,was Kozhukkatta.I remember,during our first Vinayaka Chathurthi after marriage,I told Ajay that I’ll make Modaks.He was excited as it was his favorite sweet.After the pooja,when I gave him the same,he asked me where is THE modak..:).For him,there is only one modak and that is the one with Choorna[coconut-jaggery filling] inside.

I always have a tiff with the Ukadiche Modak[that seems to be an apt name] as I never get the consistency right for the outer covering and end up making patholi.

So presenting my version of Modak:)

Modak for Lord Ganesha

Ingredients

Ripe plantains – 2
Maida/Rice flour – ½ cup[Use either maida or rice flour]
Salt – a pinch
Sugar – 2 tsp
Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Ghee for frying[I used coconut oil]

Method

Mash the plantains well.
Add sugar,salt,maida/rice flour and powdered cardamom.
Mix well to form a dough-the consistency would be like a sticky chapathi dough.
Heat oil/ghee in a frying pan and drop small spoonfuls of batter.
Deep fry till it becomes light brown.
Offer to Lord Ganesha and then serve:)


Sending this to Purva for the celebration of Ganesh Chathurthi Festive event.

19 comments :

  1. Lovely modaks and doing it with banana is new to me. Happy Vinayaka Chathurthi to you too.

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  2. Happy ganesh chaturthi divya...hope lord ganesha bless u with lots of happiness and prosperity...and modak looks really delicious and yum...

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  3. You made modaks for the season! Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to you. :)

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  4. Perfect modak! :) have a beautiful day of celebrations!

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  5. Wishing U and ur family Happy Ganesh Chaturthi..

    Modak looks perfect, thank you for the lovely entry for the event

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  6. Divya as we r from bhat family this modak is not new to us...:P...nd amma used to make it of wheat flour for Ganahom nd all....I loved it ...this luks yummmmmmm...Happy Chowthi.God bless

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  7. looks nice divya..we call this appam.:-) and modakam translates to kozhakkattai(sweet and savour dumplings) for us..

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  8. Happy Ganesh chathurthi to you too Divya a different Modak recipe different then mine

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  9. Looks like you've created a ganesha there with your very modhak. Loved it. Happy festive season to you too.

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  10. Looks lovely divya..making it with banana is very nice way to sweeten it more!

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  11. This sounds like a lovely version of the modak. Hope your Vinayak Chaturthi was happy!

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  12. nice nice... I made baked somashe and then bits of the teyi-chavati meal... in 2 instalments :)

    I had a modak arti too :)

    Happy chavati!

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  13. Making modaks with bananas seems like an exellent idea.looks yumm!

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  14. Happy ganesh chaturthi to you & your family dear :)
    What a lovely spread .
    Soup 'N Juice Event is going on in my blog.Please do participate in it.

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  15. Modak's look lovely! Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!

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  16. We call this mulka. They are so delicious!! Yours look awesome.

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  17. Oh,we call this banana appam,we make modak with rice flour and some stuff:)

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  18. Divs collect some bunch of treat from my blog :)

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  19. Happy ganesh chathurti! yummy modak. Do pass me a plate dear :-)

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Divya.

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