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Rice Modak (Coconut Pastries) I

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Holiday

Tags: dumpling, holiday, indian, medium difficulty, recipes for dessert, recipes for pastries, recipes using butter, recipes using cardamom, recipes using cashew, recipes using coconut, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ARice_Modak_%28Coconut_Pastries%29_I)

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Ingredients

Dough

2 cups rice flour
2½ cups water
1 tbsp butter
Salt

Filling

1 cup fresh grated coconut
1 cup jaggery
2 tbsp raisins
2 tbsp cashew nuts, chopped
1 tsp cardamom, powdered
Ghee

Directions

Make the filling, following the same method as the wheat flour modak.
Heat 2 cups of the water in a large pot/vessel and then add salt and butter.
As the water starts boiling, add rice flour to the water. Lower heat. Mix well. The mixture should be a smooth paste; there should be no lumps. If mixture is becoming too dry then add the remaining ½ cup water. Keep heating on low heat until rice flour is cooked.
Cover the mixture with a lid and remove from the heat. Let it cook in its own steam.
While it is still warm rub some ghee on your palms and take a small portion of the dough. Make a ball out of it. With your thumb shape the ball into a cup. Put 2 teaspoons of the filling and close the ends in a manner to get the shape of a fresh fig.
Make 10 modaks and place them in a colander or steamer basket greased with ghee. Place the modak in such a way that they do not touch one another in the colander.
Place the colander in a steamer and steam the modaks for 10 minutes.
Dribble with a teaspoon of ghee, and serve hot.