Kesar Mawa Modak
This Ganesh Chaturthi, enjoy this rich Kesar Mawa Modak prepared with handful of ingredients. This recipe shall surely bring the festive spirit to your home.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp salted butter
- ½ cup Cream
- ½ cup Milk
- Few Strands Saffron
- 105 g Milk Powder (approx. 1 cup)
- 1 tbsp Cornstarch powder
- 6 Green Cardamom
- 65 g Icing Sugar
Instructions
- Crush seeds of 6 green cardamom using a mortar and pestle and keep it aside.
- In a deep non-stick pan, heat 2 tbsp salted butter over medium heat. Once the butter starts to melt, add ½ cup of cream and keep stirring it continuously using a spatula until the mixture becomes silky smooth.
- Now add ½ cup milk and few strands of saffron in the pan and continue stirring it. Soon the milk will strart getting a rich yellow color as the saffron gets infused in the milk.
- As soon as the milk starts simmering, add 105 g (approx. 1 cup) of Milk powder and mix rigorously using a whisk or a spatula. Make sure there aren’t any lumps.
- Now add 1 tbsp of cornstarch and continue mixing using a spatula. In a minute or so the cornstarch will be cooked, and you will see the mixture getting thick and leaving the sides of the non-stick pan. At this stage the mawa is ready.
- Then transfer this mawa mixture onto a plate. While the mawa is still warm, add the crushed green cardamom and fold in 65 g Icing Sugar. Mix well using a spatula ensuring that sugar is thoroughly mixed. The modak mixture is ready.
- If you feel that the mawa mixture is too soft to shape into modaks, then refrigerate it for an hour and then use to make modaks. This step will help make the modaks with ease.
- Now take some mawa mixture in your hand and make it into a ball using your palms. Then press the mawa ball into the mold. Close the mold, press firmly, and remove the excess mawa mixture from it. Then open the mould and gently take out the modak from the mold. Place it on a plate and repeat the same step to prepare the rest of the modaks.
- This mixture shold yield you approx. 10 modaks.
- Refrigerate the modak for an hour before serving. This will help modaks retain its shape. The Kesar Mawa Modak is ready!