Modak

Ingredients

100 gms. almonds
100 gms. pistachios
200 gms. sugar
1kg. powdered sugar
1 kg. khoya
4 drops of rose essence.

Method

• Put the khoya in a big and deep metal plate.
• Add the powdered sugar and drops of essence of rose.
• Mix together and knead together to make a soft dough.
• Without blanching the almonds and pistachios, chop them into small bits. Rub them and husk them.
• Mix 200 gms. sugar in the chopped bits.
• Lightly grease the palms, take out a small lump from the prepared dough of khoya, roll it in between the palms and shape into a ball.
• Make a hollow in the middle of the ball and place about a teaspoonful of the almond-pistachios mixture.
• Carefully pull up the sides and gather them at the top, giving it a conical shape.
• When ready the modak should resemble a fresh fig, thus make all the modaks.