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Healthy Modaks and More
Recipes For Ganesh Chaturthi
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Here are some traditional recipes for Ganesh Chaturthi, albeit with a healthy twist. Not only are these recipes great for offering as prasadam to the deity, but taste awesome too!
 Coconut Modaks
Ingredients
For Dough
2 cups rice flour
1 tsp sugar substitute (Equal, Sugar Free etc)
1 tsp sunflower oil
Pinch of salt
2 cups water
For Filling
4 cups coconut (desiccated or freshly grated)
2 cups gur (jaggery)
1 tsp elaichi powder (cardamom)
2 tsp poppy seeds (roasted)
Preparation
Add salt, sugar substitute and oil to the water and put to boil. Once boiled, add the rice flour and allow cooking on a slow flame. Do not stir the flour after adding to the water. Cook till the mixture turns into dough like consistency. When cool, knead into soft dough that is neither too stiff nor too sticky. Prepare the filling by mixing the gur and coconut and cooking on very slow heat till the gur is fully melted and the mixture becomes dry. Add the elaichi powder and poppy seeds to this filling. Prepare the modaks by taking a small ball of the dough (golf ball size) and flattening it. Put 1 tsp of the filling into the centre of the flattened dough and gather the edges in such a manner that it resembles a modaks shape. Steam all the prepared modaks for 15-20 minutes and they are ready to be offered to Lord Ganesha. Replacing sugar with jaggery and sugar substitute and steaming the modaks instead of frying them makes them very healthy.
 Appams
Ingredients
1/4 cup semolina (rava)
1 cup mashed ripe banana
1/4 cup wheat flour
3 tbsp jaggery
Pinch of salt
2 tbsp oil
Preparation
Mix together the mashed banana and the jaggery till the jaggery melts completely. Add the wheat flour, semolina and salt to this mixture. Make small round appams (puris) with the mixture and shallow fry on a tava (flat pan), much like you would for parathas.
Using wheat flour instead of maida, jaggery instead of sugar, and shallow frying instead of deep frying makes these appams a much healthier version of the traditional recipe.
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