Modaka ( With Rice Flour )

Modaka is a special dish prepared on God Ganesha Festival.......This Modaka is  a healthy sweet dish and can have it even as Break fast.

Things Needed:
Rice  Flour : 2 cups
Water : 2 cups
Jaggery : 1 cup
Coconut : 2 cups .( Fresh and grated)
Cardamom : 5 to 6 seeds.
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Method:
Grate coconut . Powder the cardamom and keep it aside. Keep a pan on the fire and heat . Put grated coconut and jaggery . Mix thoroughly and stir until the moisture disappear from the coconut mixture. Add cardamom and leave it for cooling.
Now boil water in a  bigger pan.  Pour  rice flour in a bowl and add boiled hot water slowly and mix the flour like chapati dough. Mix it well and Knead the dough thoroughly.  Now apply little oil or ghee to your palm take a ball size of rice flour dough and pat it and spread little and place a spoonful of coconut jaggery mixture and cover from all side and bring it to ball shape. ( You can bring up the top of Modaka little longer too).  Repeat and prepare modakas from remaining dough.  Arrange all the modakas in a tray or plate.
Keep a pressure cooker on the fire . Put some water (1 to 2 cups )  in the pressure cooker and place a small vessel down and  keep the arranged modakas on the top of that vessel and steam it for 10 to 15 minutes.  Modakas are ready to serve.
Note: Mix rice flour with required water.  So that the dough will be easy to prepare Modakas. You can also use idli stand to steam the Modaka. ( Same as idli prepared) . Do not use weight while steaming . Can cover the hole of pressure cooker with a glass.
15 to 16  Modaks can be prepared .

Dideer ( Quick ) Rasam..

Dideer Rasam can be done quickly and easily . can have as starter and with Rice too.

Things Needed

Tour Daal : 2 Table spoons
Red chillies : 4 to 6
Tomatoes: 2 to 3 ( medium size)
Coriander Seeds : 2 Tea spoons
Fenugreek Seeds : 1/4 Tea spoon
Jeera :  1/2 Tea spoon
Turmeric : 1 pinch
Tamarind Pulp : 2 Table spoons
Mustard seeds : 1/2 Tea spoon
Salt : to taste
Coconut :  1 Table spoon ( Fresh )
Urd Daal : 1/2 Tea spoon
Asfoetida ( Ingh ) : a pinch
Oil : 1 Teaspoon
Ghee : 1 Tea spoon
Curry leaves:  6 to 8
Coriander leaves : 4 to 5 sticks.

Method:

Keep a pan on the fire. Roast Toor daal until its brown.  Shift it to a plate. Now roast fenugreek seeds until its brown and add coriander seeds roast for 2 minutes add curry leaves and jeera roast for 1 more minutes . Put off the gas . Add coconut and mix well. Mix with roasted Tour Daal . Let it cool .
Grind all the roasted mixture with little water and keep it aside .

Now keep a vessel on the fire.  Heat for a minute and add oil.  Add Mustard seeds and Urd daal . Let it spurt.  Add curry leaves and cut tomatoes  and squeezed tamarind pulp. Add turmeric.  Mix well and leave it for boiling  for 2 minutes.  Add  ground mixture of  coconut and tour daal.  Add salt to Rasam and boil for 5 minutes.  Add coriander leaves and spoon full of ghee and  serve Dideer ( quick )  Rasam  with Hot Rice or as Soup..
4 to 5 Servings..