Ingredients

• For the covering:
• 1 cup - rice flour
• 1.5 cup - water
• For the Filling:
• 1/2 - fresh grated coconut
• 1 cup - mashed jaggery
• 1 tbsp - poppy seeds (khus khus)
• Pinch of cardamom power
• Finely cut almonds

How to Make Almond Modak

• Roast poppy seeds for 2-3 mins and grind to make powder.
• Mix grated coconut and jaggery and heat till the jaggery melts and gets mixed well with the coconut.
• This generally takes 10-15 mins. Take the mixture off the heat.
• Mix cardamom powder, poppy seeds powder and almonds pieces. Filling is ready.
• For modak:
• Heat water. Add rice flour. Stir continuously till it forms a soft dough.
• Take the dough in a clean cotton cloth.
• Take small portion of the dough and make small 'katori' or bowl kind shape with it and put one spoon of the filling in it.
• Shape in the form of modak.
• Make all the modaks and keep in ghee-greased colander and steam them.
• Serve with some ghee on top.