Gulkand Modak

Gulkand Modak | Gulkand stuffed Mawa modak 

Gulkand modak ( गुलकंद मोदक ) is a delightful, delectable and flavorful modak recipe. Main ingredients of gulkand modak are rose essence and gulkand that gives an amazing taste to modak. It is too soft that it will melt in your mouth. It is a quick and easy recipe. You can make modak without any effort and mould. Ganesh Chaturthi is coming so I am sharing the instant recipe of gulkand Modak. Modak is the favorite dish of Lord Ganesha. You can store it in refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Modaks are prepared on the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. Basically modaks are prepared with rice flour and stuffed with coconut and jaggery mixture. But this is different modaks recipe prepared with instant mawa and stuffed with gulkand.

Instant mawa is made with minimal Ingredients like milk, ghee, sugar and milk solids. Milk and milk powder are cooked to make khoya (mawa). Then it is stuffed and shaped like modak. It is flavored with Rose essence. It can be made within 25 minutes. If you have store bought Khoya, you may cook modak using that khoya. You may use mould to shape them but here is the recipe about making without mould.

Course: Sweet

Cuisine: Indian

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 2

Ingredients:

½ cup gulkand

2 tbsp. desiccated coconut

3-4 dates, chopped

8-10 almonds, chopped

1 tbsp. fennel seed (saunf)

2 tbsp. tutti frooti

For instant mawa-

1 glass milk

1 cup milk powder

1 tsp. ghee

1 tsp. rose essence

2 tbsp. sugar

Instructions:

Take gulkand, desiccated coconut, chopped dates, chopped almond, fennel seeds and tutti frooti in a bowl.

Mix properly to combine all ingredients.

Heat milk in a pan. Lukewarm the milk and turn off flame.

Add milk powder in milk pan.

Do not turn on flame. Mix milk powder in milk to remove all lumps.

Turn on flame and cook on low flame. Stir continuously.

It should not be burnt at the bottom. Milk starts to evaporate.

Add 1 tsp. ghee and mix.

Scrap the milk from the sides and cook till it become thick.

Now add sugar. Mix and stir continuously. 

It starts to leave the pan.

It looks like a dough. 

Transfer to a bowl and let it be cool.

Add rose essence and mix.

When it is slightly hot and you can handle this, knead for 2 minutes to make it smooth.

Now take a spoon full of mixture and give a round shape by rolling between your palm.

Put some gulkand stuffing in the centre and close from sides.

Now start to pinch lightly to make a cone like shape.

Make impressions using a spoon.

Make all the modaks in same way.

Your gulkand modaks are ready.

Tips:

• You may change the proportion of milk and milk powder according your availability and preference.
• You may add cardamom powder and kewra.