Khana- Indian Recipes and Cuisine

Method

Step 1: Boil the water along with the oil and then take it off. Add the flour and knead it well.
Step 2: Mix the coconut gratings, dry fruits and sugar.
Step 3: Stir them on fire. Add milk and khoya and cook till well done.
Step 4: Make small holes in the dough and place small amount of the filling inside it and seal it well.
Step 5: Shape it like garlic and steam it for 10 minutes.
Step 6: Take it off, cool it and store it in airtight containers.

Ingredients

Rice flour - 2 cups

Water 4 cups

Oil - 1 teaspoon

Coconut gratings - 2 cups

Sugar 1 cup

Dry fruits - 4 tablespoons

Milk - 1/4 cup

Khoya 2 tablespoon

Meantime we will prepare the Rice Flour Dough for Modak / Kolukattai

Ingredients needed for Dough:

Home Made Rice Flour - 1 cup

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Bengal Gram - 1 cup

Jaggery - 1 cup

Cardamom - 5

Method:

Step 1: Modak / Kolukattai is the main offering / neivedyam offered to Lord Ganesha during the festival of Vinayaka Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi. Vinayaka Chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha.
Step 2: we can use ready made rice flour available in stores also but it will be little hard when cooked. This is the reason for why we are using home made rice flour.
Step 3: To prepare rice flour at home. soak the rice in water for about 30 minutes and drain the water completely. Let the rice to dry under sun well. Grind the rice to a fine powder without adding water.
Step 4: Grind the cardamom to a fine powder. Grind jaggery to fine powder. Cook the bengal gram in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles in high flame and drain the excess water. Now grind the cooked dhal little coarse without adding water and now add jaggery powder and cardamom powder to it and grind once to mix them together. Filling / poornam is ready.
Step 5: Take a cup of rice flour and add salt to it and add lukewarm water to it and form a dough. the dough should not be too hard or too soft. Prepare it to the consistency of chapati dough.
Step 6: Grease your hands with melted ghee or oil. Take a big lemon size rice flour dough and flatten them with ur hands to a little circle. Now place a gooseberry sized ball of filling in the center of the circle and seal all the edges of the rice flour dough. kolukattai is ready to cook.
Step 7: Place all the kolukattais in the idli cooker and steam it for about 5 to 10 minutes.
Step 8: Sweet Kolukattai is ready to serve.