Veggy Modak is a snack ..and you can have them as break-fast or as evening snack.
Things Needed:
Rice powder: 2 cups
Carrot : 1 cup
Beans : 1 cup
Capsicum:1 cup
Green chilly : 2
Coriander Leaves : 2 Table spoons.
Salt : to taste.
Mustard seeds : 1/2 Tea spoon
Urd Daal : 1/2 Tea spoon
Curry leaves : 6 to 8 leaves.
Oil: 1 Tea spoon
Method:
Wash and cut all the vegetables, Green chillies and coriander leaves in to small pieces and keep it aside.
Take a pan and keep it on fire and heat. Put 1 tea spoon of oil . Put mustard seeds and urd daal. let the mustard seed spurt. Add curry leaves and cut vegetables . Mix well and cook on low flame adding little water. Add little salt to it. Cook it for 4 to 5 minutes until the water disappear. Put cut coriander leaves and remove from the pan.
Now take an another pan and put 4 cups of water and add little salt to it. . Bring to boil and add rice powder little by little while the water boiling. Mix it well and stir the dough for at least 5 minutes. The dough gets thickens .Stir well and remove from the pan and keep it aside. Make balls when the dough when it becomes cool and flatten them with your palm place a spoon full of vegetable dry curry prepared and close them with your finger giving it Modaka shape. Prepare this kind of modakas placing vegetables in it. Arrange in a steam cooker or pressure cooker and steam them for 10 minutes and serve hot Modaks with Coconut chutney and a spoonful of pure ghee on hot Modakas.
Mote : Wet your hands while making balls . So that it will be easy to make Modakas. Can add Green peas to the vegetables also.
You can use Maida flour instead of rice powder. ( Roast Maida flour and leaving for cooling . Add plain water and mix as chapati dough and kneed well and make small balls and then flatten them one by one add the filling and prepare Modakas).
Note on steaming Modakas in a steamer or Pressure cooker: Add 2 glasses of water put a small bowl ( any pressure cooker container will do or similar vessel). upside down. Place a plate on it and arrange the Modakas on the plate and cover the pressure cooker and cook for 10 minutes.
10 to 15 Modakas can be prepared.
Things Needed:
Rice powder: 2 cups
Carrot : 1 cup
Beans : 1 cup
Capsicum:1 cup
Green chilly : 2
Coriander Leaves : 2 Table spoons.
Salt : to taste.
Mustard seeds : 1/2 Tea spoon
Urd Daal : 1/2 Tea spoon
Curry leaves : 6 to 8 leaves.
Oil: 1 Tea spoon
Method:
Wash and cut all the vegetables, Green chillies and coriander leaves in to small pieces and keep it aside.
Take a pan and keep it on fire and heat. Put 1 tea spoon of oil . Put mustard seeds and urd daal. let the mustard seed spurt. Add curry leaves and cut vegetables . Mix well and cook on low flame adding little water. Add little salt to it. Cook it for 4 to 5 minutes until the water disappear. Put cut coriander leaves and remove from the pan.
Now take an another pan and put 4 cups of water and add little salt to it. . Bring to boil and add rice powder little by little while the water boiling. Mix it well and stir the dough for at least 5 minutes. The dough gets thickens .Stir well and remove from the pan and keep it aside. Make balls when the dough when it becomes cool and flatten them with your palm place a spoon full of vegetable dry curry prepared and close them with your finger giving it Modaka shape. Prepare this kind of modakas placing vegetables in it. Arrange in a steam cooker or pressure cooker and steam them for 10 minutes and serve hot Modaks with Coconut chutney and a spoonful of pure ghee on hot Modakas.
Mote : Wet your hands while making balls . So that it will be easy to make Modakas. Can add Green peas to the vegetables also.
You can use Maida flour instead of rice powder. ( Roast Maida flour and leaving for cooling . Add plain water and mix as chapati dough and kneed well and make small balls and then flatten them one by one add the filling and prepare Modakas).
Note on steaming Modakas in a steamer or Pressure cooker: Add 2 glasses of water put a small bowl ( any pressure cooker container will do or similar vessel). upside down. Place a plate on it and arrange the Modakas on the plate and cover the pressure cooker and cook for 10 minutes.
10 to 15 Modakas can be prepared.
