
Ingredients:
• 1 cup – dried Fig soaked overnight
• 1 cup – Cashewnuts powder
• 1/2 cup – Sugar free or powdered Sugar
• 2 pinches – Cardamom powder
• Silver varak
• 1 cup – ricotta cheese or khoya
• 1 pinch – red colour
Method:
- Grind the soaked dried fig to a paste. Keep it aside.
- Now roast the ricotta cheese on a low flame till all the moisture is evaporated
- Add ground fig to the ricotta cheese mixture till both are amalgamated and all the moisture is absorbed
- Now grind it again to a smooth paste
- Now add powdered sugar free or powdered sugar in the mixture and keep roasting on a low flame.
- Add cardamom powder to the above mixture.
- Add slowly and gradually the cashewnut powder till a thick dough is formed.
- Form balls of the above mixture and put the mixture into greased modak moulds
- Garnish the modak with silver varak
- Refrigerate for an hour and serve
Recipe courtesy of Nikita Kambli