Chocolate Modak using Chenna

Chocolate Modak is a tasty Prasad which everybody love to have in Lord Ganesha’s Chaturti Festival. This Prasad is healthy as well as nutritious if made in a right way. Chocolate Modak which You get in market is made from Khoya ( khawa/ mawa) with lot of sugar . This Modak is very high in calorie. But when we make Chocolate Modak at home we can make it healthy as well as nutritious.

Chocolate Modak made from chena can be made from whole milk , tonned milk or even with skimmed milk .You can cut calories from this Modak by using low fat milk . This Modak are very simple and You can easily make it at home. you just need a Modak Mold (Modak sancha) to give it a nice shape of modak. You can use icing sugar to make this Modak as plain sugar makes this Modak sticky. This modak are served chilled .

Chocolate modak made from khoya is little high in calorie as it can be made from whole milk only . Generally it is preferred to not buy ready made khoya as many times it’s adulterated ( besal/ milawat ) . You can make khoya at home or buy good quality khoya to make this modak this modak tastes like Pedha with a nice flavor of coconut and chocolate .

Explained below is the step by step method to make this tasty chocolate modak .

Chocolate Modak using Chenna ( paneer)

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ litre whole milk (if you want less calories use fat free milk )
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice (limbacha ras / nimbu ka ras )
• 3 tablespoon icing sugar
• 2 tablespoon Cadbury Coco powder (it already contains vanilla essence)
• 1 tablespoon desiccated coconut (khobryacha barik kis / gola barik kadukas kiya hua)
• Modak Mould (Modak Sancha)- To give Modak shape

Recipe:

• Bring milk to boil in a heavy bottom pan .
• Add lemon juice to it .
• Stir continuously.When milk curdles completely, remove pan from heat .
• Place muslin cloth on the bowl and pour curdled milk into it and strain ,Bring four corners of muslin cloth together and gently twist and squeeze all the water from the chenna .
• Again wash it 2-3 times with plain water to remove the sour lemon taste out of it.
• ,Bring four corners of muslin cloth together and gently twist and squeeze all the water from the chenna . keep heavy weight on this cloth with chenna for 2-3 hours . it should become little dry.
• Break chenna in small pieces and take it in food processor jar or mixer jar
• Grind it for few seconds .
• Add icing sugar in it .
• Grind it with in few seconds it will become very soft.
• Add desiccated coconut in this chenna icing sugar mixture .
• Grind it again until it mix nicely and becomes very soft .
• Chocolate modak mixture is ready
• Grease the modak mold with ghee…this will prevent the mixture from sticking and all you have to do is stuff it with this chocolate modak mixture by pressing it nicely with your index finger and demould ……do remember to grease the modak mould before use …
• Keep it in refrigerator .It will become firm.Serve it chilled to lord ganesha .