Modaks or kozhukattai

Recipe for Modaks.

There are different types of modaks prepared, all over. This recipe am giving you here is a new variety innovated by my mommy using cashew nuts, unlike the usual recipe which includes jaggery and coconut.

Inippu/sweet kozhakattai:

Ingredients:

For Outer covering:

Rice flour – 2 cups.

Hot water

Oil – a little

Salt to taste.

For Inner stuffings or Pooranam:

Cashew nuts 1 1/2 cups

Sugar 2 tb sp.

Coconut grated – a cup

Ghee – to fry

Ilaichi 1pc.

First, to prepare the pooranam, fry the nuts in the ghee. Add the coconut and the fried nuts n sugar and run it in the mixer a make a mixture.

For the outer covering, Add salt and little oil to the rice flour. Add boiling water to it little by little and make to a Roti dough consistency.

Now to make the modaks, first grease your palms with oil, so that the dough does not stick on. Now take little of the dough and make it into cup like shapes and fill in the pooranam and close it in like shown in picture.

Steam cook it until it is done and Serve hot.

Kaara kozhukattai / Uppu kozhukattai

Season mustard, urad dhal, green and red chillies, in oil, add grated coconut and let it get cooked. Allow to cool.

While making the dough, just add this seasoning to it and add salt, hot water and make it into a dough. Make the kozhukattai one by one and place it in the idli plate and pressure cook it.