Ingredients

• 1 cup - dried fig soaked overnight
• 1 cup - cashewnuts powder
• 1/2 cup - sugar free or powdered sugar
• 2 pinches - cardamom powder
• Silver varak
• 1 cup - ricotta cheese or khoya
• 1 pinch - red colour

How to Make Fig and Khoya Modak

• Grind the soaked dried fig to a paste. Keep it aside.
• Now roast the ricotta cheese on a low flame till all the moisture is evaporated
• Add ground fig to the ricotta cheese mixture till both are amalgamated and all the moisture is absorbed
• Now grind it again to a smooth paste
• Now add powdered sugar free or powdered sugar in the mixture and keep roasting on a low flame.
• Add cardamom powder to the above mixture.
• Add slowly and gradually the cashewnut powder till a thick dough is formed.
• Form balls of the above mixture and put the mixture into greased modak moulds
• Garnish the modak with silver varak
• Refrigerate for an hour and serve