9 September, 2015
Peanut Modak
Ingredients:
- Roasted peanuts:1 & 1/2 cup
- Sugar: 1/2 cup
- Decimated coconut: 3 tablespoons(Optional)
- Milk powder: 2 tablespoon
- Ghee or unsalted butter: 1 teaspoon
- Water
- Cardamom powder: 1/4 teaspoon
- Roasted peanuts for garnishing
- Modak Moulds(For Shape)
Serves: 10 pieces
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Preparation:
- Roast peanuts on a pan or any desired method and remove skin. Finely crush peanuts to powder.
- Heat ghee in a pan, add peanut powder and sauté for few seconds. Keep the mixture aside.
- Heat 1/4 cup water and add sugar in a pan. Stir occasionally till sugar syrup is little thick (1 & 1/2 thread).
- Add peanut powder ,coconut and cook till mixture leaves the border of pan. See to it the mixture is thick and not hard.
- Let it cool to room temperature. Add cardamom powder and milk powder.
- Mix all ingredients properly. Make 10 balls. Use moulds(see the image above) and keep one ball inside and prepare modak one by one.
- Garnish with peanut.
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