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Instant Mawa Modak
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Instant Modak

A sweet made with milk powder , sugar and ligthly flavoured with cardamom powder with dry fruits filling is shaped into Modak.
Course Sweets
Cuisine Indian
Keyword Festivals, Ganesha Chaturthi, Gluten Free
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 10 Modak
Calories 133kcal
Author Muktha H S

Ingredients

  • ½ Cup Whole Milk Full fat
  • ¼ Cup Milk few saffron strands soaked
  • 1.5 Cups Milk Powder
  • 2 tablespoon Powdered Sugar
  • ½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
  • 1 tablespoon Ghee/ Clarified Butter ½ + ½ tablespoon divided
  • ¼ Cup , Dry fruits & Nuts of your choice , chopped

Instructions

Preparations

  • Crush 5-6 strands of saffron and soak in ¼ cup of warm milk for about 10 minutes.
  • Husk 4-5 cardamom pods and pound in mortar and pestle to a fine powder.
  • In a blender, add 2 tablespoon of Sugar and blend to a fine powder.

Making of Instant Mawa

  • In a thick bottom pan or non-stick pan, heat 1.2 tablespoon of ghee/ Clarified butter.
  • Add ½ cup of milk and bring it to boil.
  • Now add in ¼ cup of saffron soaked milk and stir well. Boil on medium heat till it thickens slightly.
  • Now add milk powder gradually, part by part stirring continuously. Make sure that there are no lumps of milk powder.
  • On a medium low heat keep stirring, everything comes together to form a mass.
  • Now add ½ tablespoon of Ghee/ clarified butter and mix well.
  • Turn off the stove , Instant Mawa / Instant Khova is ready , let it cool down .
  • When instant mawa mixture is still warm , add 2 tablespoon of powdered sugar, ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder and mix well.

Shaping Modak

  • Grease modak moulds with ghee, and fill in the mawa mixture into the moulds.
  • Make hollow at the centre, fill in 1 teaspoon of chopped dry fruits and nuts mixture.
  • Cover the base with prepared instant mawa mixture, remove the excess dough that bleeds around.
  • Gently press and unmould , Instant mawa modak are ready.

Video

Notes

  • I have used Nestle , Everyday dairy whitener in this recipe .
  • Added 2 tablespoon of powdered sugar , it was just perfect. 
  • For filling I added raisins, cranberries , pistachios, almonds and cahews. So sweetness from raisins and cranberries were also added.
  • As my molds are large , this recipe yielded 10 -11 large Modak's , you can double the recipe measurement to make 21 modak's

Nutrition

Calories: 133kcal