| Modhaka
Following is the recipe for preparing this Modhaka.
Ingredients
100 gms. almonds
100 gms. pistachios
200 gms. sugar
1kg. powdered sugar
1 kg. khoya
4 drops of rose essence.
Method
- Put the khoya in a big and deep metal plate.
- Add the powdered sugar and drops of essence of rose.
- Mix together and knead together to make a soft dough.
- Without blanching the almonds and pistachios, chop them into small bits.
- Rub them and husk them.
- Mix 200 gms. sugar in the chopped bits.
- Lightly grease the palms, take out a small lump from the prepared dough of khoya, roll it in between the palms and shape into a ball.
- Make a hollow in the middle of the ball and place about a teaspoonful of the almond-pistachios mixture.
- Carefully pull up the sides and gather them at the top, giving it a conical shape.
- When ready the modak should resemble a
fresh fig, thus make all the modaks.
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