Savoury Modak/Chatpate Modak

Its festival time... Coming week we all will be welcoming Lord Ganesha to our homes. It is so pleasant feeling to see lord staying with us at our home for a couple of days. Hence, it is a celebration time. In Mumbai people already started cleaning houses an decorating it for the guest of honour "Lord Ganapati". Big pandals have already been set up for the welcome of big idols of Lord Ganesha. Enthusiasm is in air. Here, in Bangalore we don't bring Lord at our home but we celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm.

From the description of the festival you would have come to know about today's blog menu. The most favourite item of Lord Ganesh; "Modaks". Yes, today I am posting modak recipe. But, normally people make it sweet. It is steamed delicacy traditionally made by rice flour, coconut and jaggery. But today I am giving a 360 degree twist to this this modak recipe and I am showing here savoury modaks which can rather be had as a snack. This is my very own version of savoury modaks. Normally we prepare sweet delicacies as prasad in these 10 days of festival. I thought of a change and tried this recipe which was really a great hit. Let's begin....

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 10 mins

Serves : 4

Ingredients:

Potatoes - 2 nos. boiled & mashed

Poha or Flattened rice - 1/4 cup

Green peas - 1/4 cup boiled

Capsicum - 1/4 cup finely chopped

Carrot - 1/4 cup finely chopped

Coriander - 1/4 cup

Red Chilly powder - 1 tspn

Dry Mango Powder/Amchur - 1 tspn

Cumin powder - 1 tspn

Garam Masala - 1/2 tspn

Chat Masala - as per taste

Cornflour - 2 tbspn

Salt - as per taste

Oil - for deep frying

Method:

1. Take a bowl and add all veggies and spices together.

2. Add salt to taste.

3. Add cornflour. First add 1 tbspn then add more if required.

4. Make a dough by combining everything.

5. Take a modak mould and grease its inner surface with little oil.

6. Take small portion from dough and put it in modak mould.

7. Make a batch of 6-8 modaks ready.

8. Deep fry them on medium to high flame.

9. Serve with chutney or ketchup.

NOTE:

If you don't have modak mould; you can also roll out small balls from it or flatten it like patties. You can also make cutlets out of this. Add veggies of your choice to make it more healthy.

See the recipe video below