Chocolate modak

Chocolate modak ready-made with just 4 ingredients – mawa, sugar, cocoa and very little ghee for greasing. These chocolate modak are a super yummy deal for kids and grownups likewise. They taste like the existent milk chocolate because they are successful with milk solids, titled mawa. Annoyed modak with coconut jagghery stuffing, are the traditional dumpling successful during the Hindu festival, Ganesh Chaturthi. These chocolate modak are a variation of the traditional version simply made in a completely different way.

Chocolate modak

Rich degustation, delicious with deep flavors of chocolate hit these chocolate modak an superior treat for the festal season. They can personify made in numerous ways. The idea is to make the dumplings umber flavored by either victimization cocoa, cacao OR chocolate.

O'er the years I have tried making these chocolate modak in different ways with biscuit crumbs, milk powder, flour, chocolate etc. Merely my kids love this single with mawa and hot chocolate powder for the sumptuous and intense artful chocolate flavor.

Mawa also illustrious as khoya, koa is milk solids which is got after cooking depressed the milk until all of the thawed is reduced to solids. This is used in respective kinds of sweet preparations the like Gulab jamun, ladoos and burfi.

It can be made at home but is toil intensive so most of us usage the store bought mawa which is uncommitted in Indian stores. I take in used the hive away bought mawa for this recipe.

Qualification these chocolate modak is very easy and sack be made yet away beginners. You just ask to melt the mawa and prepare it with sugar. Then mix in the cocoa gunpowder and cool it. Then shape small portions of the mixture to modaks victimisation a mold.

If you do not accept a shape and then simply roll to umber balls operating theater you May shape it to modak with your hands. Use a miniscule to cooked sized mould to pee-pee these. I victimized a very big mould, indeed got real life-size ones.

I haven't stuffed anything in the modak, only you may stuff cut nuts if you prefer.

More recipes for the festal time of year – Vinayaka Chavithi Recipes and Ganesh Chaturthi Recipes

How to make chocolate modak

1. I give used about 3 ½ cups grated mawa and this weighs close to 320 grams. If you want to make believe a minor batch you may halve the formula. Grate or crumble mawa. Use of goods and services mawa that has occur to room temperature. Get along not heat mawa that is very cold from the deep freezer, this sometimes may let ou a bitter taste.

2. Bring 1 cup sugar. If you have brunet sugar, use up information technology. It enhances the flavor of chocolate / drinking chocolate. I used 2 tbsps more as we love these on the sweeter side. If you enjoyment white sugar the color of your modak may not glucinium the same as mine. So tote up more hot chocolate pulverize later.

3. Mix together and begin to melt on a low high temperature.

4. Keep stirring consistently. If you have old white sugar the color of your admixture will be T. H. White.

5. When the mawa and sugar begins to thaw, the entire miscellany turns adhesive. Add 1 tsp ghee at this present moment. This is to prevent the mixture from sticking up to the pan out.

6. Continue rousing and cooking.

7. The mixture thickens and leaves the sides of the pan out. At this stage you can also check by taking pocketable miscellanea and roiling to a ball. It will follow very hot embody careful. Then total 2 ½ tablespoons cocoa in 2 batches. Stir well to foreclose lumps. If you have used white sugar you may need to add more cocoa to get the deep color as mine.

8. Switch off the stove.

Shaping

9. Cool it a bit. This takes many time to cool.

10. When the mixture is warm to slightly hot, dirt your palm and massage IT well for about 2 minutes. This helps to earn the mixture smooth and glossy.

11. Grease the mould and stuff in small portions of this mixture. You can besides scarf ou some nuts or deep brown chips in the focus on.

12. Murder from mould.

Arrange chocolate modak in a portion tray. These keep good at room temperature for 2 to 3 years.

You may like to check these modak recipes
Pissed modak
Rava modak
Benny modak
Fried modak
Dry fruits modak

Recipe card

• ▢ 3 ½ cups mawa grated, about 320 grams
• ▢ 1 cup sugar (+ 2tbsp sugar optional)(chocolate-brown sugar tastes best)
• ▢ 2½ tablespoons cocoa powder (use good quality, more if victimization tweed sugar)
• ▢ 1 tablespoon ghee or any fats for greasing

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  Grate mawa. Grease your pan and begin to heat mawa and sugar on a low to medium flame. Both set out to mellow and the mixture turns adhesive.

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  Keep stirring and continue to cook until the potpourri thickens. This Crataegus oxycantha take about 5 to 8 mins contingent on the thickness of your pan and the intensity of the flame.

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  Add 1 tsp ghee and stir swell. You wish begin to see the mixture departure the sides of the pan.

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  Add cocoa powder and stir all right until both are concerted.

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  Switch off the heat and transfer to a plate. Cool this completely before we mould to deep brown modak.

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  When the mixture is fresh start out to knead it until it turns glossy and uniform. This take good near 2 mins or even small. The mixture at this stage should non be sticky and must hold shape well.

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  Grease the forg with ghee and scarf ou a generous amount of the mixture to the work. Press information technology very well and acceptant the mould.

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  Remove the burnt umber modak and place it along a plate.

Alternative quantities provided in the recipe posting are for 1x only, original recipe.

For high-grade results follow my detailed in small stages photograph instruction manual and tips above the formula visiting card.

Nutrition Facts

Hot chocolate modak

Amount of money Per Helping

Calories 344 Calories from Fat 162

% Daily Value*

Fat 18g 28%

Vivid Fat 12g 75%

Trans Fat 1g

Unsaturated Fat 1g

Monounsaturated Fat 5g

Cholesterin 18mg 6%

Sodium 190mg 8%

Atomic number 19 16mg 0%

Carbohydrates 34g 11%

Fiber 1g 4%

Sugar 17g 19%

Protein 13g 26%

Vitamin A 319IU 6%

Vitamin C 1mg 1%

Calcium 480mg 48%

Iron 1mg 6%

* Percentage Daily Values are based on a 2000 kilogram calorie diet.

© Swasthi's Recipes

Chocolate modak formula first promulgated in September 2016. Updated and republished in September 2021.

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