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Modakam using mould - How to make modakam using mould

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Modakam using mould - How to make modakam using mould

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Method:

• In a pan add little ghee and roast the raisins and  cashewnuts.
• Keep it aside. Add rava |sooji to the pan.
• Roast this till it becomes nice golden colour.
• Ensure it should not  get burnt.

• Boil the milk in a sauce pan and add it to the roasted rava.
• Mix this well without any lumps.
• Let the rava gets cooked nicely in the milk.
• Cook till the milk gets totally absorbed and the rava is cooked.
• Make it into a non sticky mixture.

• Soak saffron in 2 tsp of warm milk and keep aside.
• Add the soaked milk to this cooked rava.
• Add the sugar to the cooked rava. I used raw sugar.

• Once you add the sugar the mixture will become watery. Do not panic. Cook this well in a medium flame without any lumps.
• Add ghee little by little and cook in a low flame.
• Add in the roasted raisins and cashew nuts.

• Mix well.
• Add the cardamom powder. alternatively you can add everest milk masala.
• Mix well. Allow this to cool completely. Poornam is ready for the kesari modak.

• Boil the milk and water in a saucepan. add 1 tsp of sesame oil.
• Keep the flour in a wide bowl.
• Once the milk and water mixture comes to a rolling boil add a pinch of salt and switch off the flame.
• slowly add this to the flour and mix well.

• Once warm knead it into a soft dough. Keep it covered.

• I used my modak mould to make the kesari modak.. You can make normal modaks with your hands too.
• Check out my video on how to shape modak using mould. 
• Take one small gooseberry sized dough . Grease the inner portion of the mould and put the dough inside the mould.
• Using your fingers  spread the dough on the walls of the mould. Place a small ball of poornam into it. 

• Seal the mould with a small portion of the dough. Level this perfectly. Else while taking out you will find gaps.

• carefully open the mould . 

• Take out the modak, 

• Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
• I did 14 modaks with this mould, but after that the outer cover was over but i was left with the kesari poornam. So made modaks with the poornam itself. 
• Steam the modakams with outer cover for 7 minutes. 
• The poornam modak can me eaten as such.
• Cool for 2 minutes and take out from the steamer.

• Kesari modakams are ready for neivedhyam. 

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