Ingredients

• 1/4 kg - channa dal, soaked for 2-3 hours
• 2 - Kerala ripe bananas (cut in small pieces)
• 1/4 kg - jaggery, crushed
• 1 cup - coconut (grated and crushed in mixer)
• 750 gm - rice powder
• 1/4 tsp - cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp - dry ginger/suntha (powdered)
• 1/4 tsp - roasted cumin
• 1/4 cup - ghee

How to Make Chana Banana Modak

• For filling-Pressure cook soaked chana dal and bananas with a little water for 3-4 whistles. Light the gas on low flame and place a pan on it.
• Add ghee and chana dal banana mixture to it and stir well till the mixture is thickened.
• Then add crushed jaggery, dry ginger powder, cardamom powder, cumin powder and stir the whole mixture well on a low flame till it gets thickened.
• In another pan slightly fry grated coconut for 2 minutes and then add to the main mixture and stir well. Please take a note that the mixture should be thick enough to make a filling. For modak-
• Make a slightly loose batter of rice powder and water (see to it that no lumps are formed).
• Place a pan on low flame and add the batter.
• Stir well, till batter turns into a thick paste.
• Grease your hand, spread the rice paste on your palm put the filling and shape it into modak.
• Steam the modaks and you are ready to relish the exotic taste of modaks.