Ingredients
½ cup chopped dark chocolate
1 cup Rice flour + for dusting
¼ cup fresh Cream
2 teaspoons Nutralite Classic + for greasing
½ cup scraped fresh Coconut
¼ cup finely chopped mixed dry fruits (cashewnuts, almonds, raisins, pistachios)
National Salt to taste
To prepare stuffing, heat cream in a non-stick pan and bring to boil.
Take chocolate in a bowl. Add hot cream and mix till chocolate melts.
Add 1 teaspoon Nutralite Classic, coconut and mixed dry fruits and mix well. Refrigerate it.
Boil 1 cup water in another deep non-stick pan.
Add salt and remaining Nutralite Classic and mix well.
Add 1 cup rice flour and keep stirring for a minute. Sprinkle some water, mix, cover and cook on low heat for 2-3 minutes. Transfer the mixture on the worktop and mix using a spatula and knead into a smooth dough.
Dust the worktop with some rice flour and knead the dough well.
Transfer in a bowl, cover with damp muslin cloth and set aside for 30 minutes.
Heat sufficient water in a deep non-stick pan.
Place a steamer, cover and let it heat. Divide the dough into equal portions.
To prepare one modak, grease the inside of a modak mould, line it with a portion of dough, fill it with some chocolate stuffing, cover using some more dough, seal and demould.
Place the modaks in steamer, cover and steam for 10 minutes. Serve.
