Temple Prasadams ~ Pillayarpatti Modakam
This modakam / mothagam is made and distributed as prasadam in the Pillayar temple and when I looked for the recipe, I landed at Sharmi's Place. It sounded similar to Andhra's undrallu recipe albeit a sweeter version. I halved her recipe as there was no one else to share with me and got about nine modakam. They were subtly sweet and in spite of that they were so yummy that I ended up eating a few skipping my lunch. I went by my regular undrallu making method and ended up adding more water than the original recipe mentioned. However still mine were not looking that moist as in the original recipe and I am guessing it is because of the coarser rava I used.
Ingredients: (Yield 9 modakam)
1/2 cup rice (uncooked) / rice rava
2 tbsp. yellow moong dal
6 - 8 tbsp. jaggery
2 tbsp. fresh shredded coconut
1 tbsp. ghee + extra for greasing
Method:
* Dry toast rice for a couple of minutes and set aside. This step can be skipped if using rice rava. Dry roast moong dal until it starts to turn golden brown. When both rice and moong dal are at room temperature, transfer them to a grinder and coarsely powder them, like rava. (I used the store bought rice rava and just coarsely ground the moong dal.)
* Heat a tsp. of ghee and lightly toast the rava mixture for a couple of minutes.
* Dissolve jaggery in about 1&1/2 cups water and strain for any impurities. (I skip this step as the jaggery I buy usually is good.) Heat the jaggery water until it starts to boil.
* Lower the heat and add the rice-moong mixture in a slow flow, continuously stirring.
* Cover and cook until the mixture looks almost done. Add the ghee, coconut and cardamom and stir for about a minute.
* Turn off the stove and let the mixture cool enough to handle.
* Grease your palm with ghee and shape the mixture into lime sized balls. Place them in a greased container.
* Steam them for about 10 minutes and serve warm.
This is my post under 'Traditional temple Recipes'. Check the blogging marathon page to see what my fellow marathoners are cooking for BM#52.
Comments
11 comments:
Looks so divine!! Thanks for sharing..
delicious and awesome.
Pictures are fantastic Suma and what a lovely prasadam!
In our native, we call Kozhukattai with channa dal stuffing as "Modakam". This sound interesting & looks yummy
Very interesting modakams Suma.
very divine and delicious modagam..
These look so yumm. I think both of us looked at the same page for reference regarding unique temple prasadams :)
Moong dal and rice are interesting ingredients for ladoos. Sounds delicious.
Am in love with your choices for this theme, modakam rocks Suma.
these look so good and must have nice and soft texture
They look so delicious.
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