MANGO MODAK BY SURESH KABADKAR

MANGO MODAK

Ingredients: 

1 cup mango ( small cubes pressed down lightly and measured); 

4 Tbsp powdered sugar ; 

a big pinch salt ; 

3 Tbsp sesame seeds lightly roasted ; 

3 Tbsp heaped dessicated coconut lightly roasted ; 

8 cashews broken into bits and roasted; 

2 cardamoms powdered ; 

1 slice bread toasted and made into crumbs ; 

2 Tbsp milk powder ; 

¾ cup maida ; 

2 tsp powdered sugar ; 

a big pinch salt; 

3 tsp ghee ; 

oil for frying. 

Method: 

Mix the mango bits , 3 Tbps sugar, and salt and keep aside for 15 to 20 mts. In the meantime, mix the maida with the 2 tsp sugar and salt. Heat the 3 tsp ghee and add it to the maida mixture and mix with your finger tips till the ghee is spread through out evenly. Add water gradually and make a dough like puri-dough. Keep aside for a while. Combine together sesame seeds , coconut, cashew , elaichi pdr and bread-crumbs and add to the mango mix. Stir gently with a spoon and then the juice produced by the mango mix gets mixed up and absorbed . Lastly, add the milk pdr and gently fold it in.

Make small balls of the dough, the size of a small lemon and roll out to form small thin puris ( about 3 inches across). Make a paste of some maida with water and then place the mango mix filling in the middle of the puris, coat the circular edge of the puris with the maida paste and fold the puri to form the modaks. 

Now fry the modaks in a medium hot oil, turning from time to time , till golden brown. Mango modak is ready !