Sweet potato 1/2 cup (cooked and mashed) Sugar 2-3 tblsp Grated coconut 1 tblsp Cardamom powder a pinch Nutmeg a pinch (optional) Sesame oil 1-2 tsp For the outer covering of modak Idiyappam flour | Home made rice flour 3/4 cup Sesame oil 2 drops Water as needed Method:
In a wide bowl add the idiyappam flour. Bring water to rolling boil. Add 2 drops of sesame oil to this. Add this water to the flour little by little. You can make this kozhakattai maavu in 4 different ways. Mix well with a spoon. When it is warm enough to handle grease your hand with oil and knead the dough into a smooth soft dough without any cracks. Cover this and keep till we use it. For making the filling with sweet potato, boil the sweet potato and take out the skin. Actually i had one small sweet potato and that too was not good in one end. I noticed it after i peeled the skin. Mash the sweet potato using a fork and add sugar, cardamom powder, coconut and nutmeg(if adding) to this. Mix this well with a spoon. Filling is ready. Make it into medium sized balls. Take the dough and make it into lemon sized balls. Grease your hands with sesame oil and using your fingers start making small cups. Place one ball of the sweet potato stuffing. Cover it and make it into a modak shape. Check out my Video on how to make Modak. Do it for the rest of the dough and stuffing. Keep it covered always. Grease an idli pan and steam the modak for 10 minutes. Once done, cool down and take out from the idli pan. Sweet potato modakam is ready for neivedyam
In a wide bowl add the idiyappam flour. Bring water to rolling boil. Add 2 drops of sesame oil to this. Add this water to the flour little by little. You can make this kozhakattai maavu in 4 different ways. Mix well with a spoon. When it is warm enough to handle grease your hand with oil and knead the dough into a smooth soft dough without any cracks.
Cover this and keep till we use it. For making the filling with sweet potato, boil the sweet potato and take out the skin. Actually i had one small sweet potato and that too was not good in one end. I noticed it after i peeled the skin. Mash the sweet potato using a fork and add sugar, cardamom powder, coconut and nutmeg(if adding) to this. Mix this well with a spoon.
Filling is ready. Make it into medium sized balls. Take the dough and make it into lemon sized balls.
Grease your hands with sesame oil and using your fingers start making small cups. Place one ball of the sweet potato stuffing. Cover it and make it into a modak shape. Check out my Video on how to make Modak.
Do it for the rest of the dough and stuffing. Keep it covered always. Grease an idli pan and steam the modak for 10 minutes. Once done, cool down and take out from the idli pan.
Sweet potato modakam is ready for neivedyam.
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