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Wheat Modak (Coconut Pastries)

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 20–25 servings Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Holiday

Tags: dessert, holiday, indian, medium difficulty, recipes for pastries, recipes using cardamom, recipes using coconut, recipes using jaggery, recipes using wheat flour, recipes without cooking time

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AWheat_Modak_%28Coconut_Pastries%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AWheat%20Modak%20%28Coconut%20Pastries%29&oldid=4587235

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Dough

1 cup white wheat flour
1 cup semolina flour
1 pinch of salt
1 pinch of turmeric powder
1 cup warm water
Oil for frying

Filling

1 coconut, grated finely (makes about 2 cups)
1½ cups jaggery (or substitute raw sugar)
¾ tablespoon powdered cardamom

Directions

Combine all the dough ingredients; it should be dry but should a little sticky.
Grease the dough with oil and leave covered for 1 hour.
Melt the jaggery with 4 tablespoons of water in a non-stick skillet until it is liquid.
Add coconut. Sauté for 15–20 minutes, until the mixture becomes very thick and almost dry.
Mix in the cardamom powder and remove from the fire.
Spread the mixture out on a metal tray to cool.
Take a tablespoon-sized ball of dough and roll it out—using flour if it is sticky—into a disc 4 inches across.
Put a tablespoon-sized lump of filling in the middle (it should be hardening well by now), wet the edges with a finger, and fold up the sides, crimping the dough into a peak at the top to completely seal in the filling.
Deep fry the modak in oil until golden brown.