Modhagam is a yummy snack and also widely used dish for neivedhyam for vinayakar chaturti or other festivals. Also whenever we do other varieties of kozhukattai and if we have left over pooranam, then we can use that pooranam to prepare modhagam and this way we do not need to throw away the left over. Any kind of pooranam can be used to prepare modhagam. Here i have shown thengai poorana modhagam recipe. Try this for this vinayakar chaturti and let me know your feedback!!!
Preparation Time : 20 mins; Cooking Time : 20 mins; Serving :20
Ingredients:
| Grated Coconut | 1 Cup |
| Grated Jaggery | 1/2 Cup |
| Oil | For Frying |
| Cardamom Powder | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Rice flour | 1 handfull |
| All purpose flour(Maida flour) | 3 handfull |
| Kesari powder(Lemon flavour) | A Pinch |
Method:
- Heat a pan, add 1 cup of water and add grated jaggery.
- When the jaggery dissolves completely in water, strain it to remove dust and sand particles.
- Add the strained jaggery juice again in the pan, and keep it in flame.
- When the the jaggery juice starts to boil and become thick, add grated coconut, cardamom powder and stir well continuously till it roll like a ball and does not stick the sides of the pan.
- This is the correct consistency to remove from flame. Take the coconut pooranam in a plate and allow it to cool off
- Make small balls out of the pooranam and keep it in a plate
- Now take a bowl and add rice and all purpose flour and add pinch of kesari powder and add water to make it like a bajji flour
- Heat oil in a pan, and test the oil by adding a drop of maida and rice flour and when the flour raises immediately in the oil, then the oil is in correct hot and we can proceed with the modhagam. Now take 1 ball of coconut pooranam and dip it in maida-rice flour mixture and drop it in oil. Repeat this step for next 4 balls of pooranam
- Deep fry the modhagam till it becomes crisp and golden color
- Remove the modhagam from flame and keep it in strainer/tissue to remove excess oil
- The delicious modhagam is ready for serving and also for neivedhyam
