Sugar free chocolate modak is an instant modak recipe for the fit and conscious. Ganesh chaturthi festival is a time to celebrate. Everyone should be included in celebrations. Whether you are vegan or gluten free. This sweet dish has no added sugar & is a raw recipe. It is also vegan and gluten free. Hence it is an excellent treat.
We all love modaks especially mava modaks. However, many people have allergies and cannot digest milk solids. Thus, we wanted to make an all inclusive healthy modak recipe. This sugar free modak gets its sweetness from dates & raisins. This easy modak recipe is our take on bliss balls. You can make this recipe using unsweetened peanut butter or any nut butter.
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What is Ganesh Chaturthi? How to make eco-friendly Ganesha idol?
Ganesha chaturthi is a 10 day long Indian festival which is celebrated to mark the birth of Shri Ganesha. Most people bring the Ganpati idol home and pray for the wellbeing for the family.We keep it for either 1.5 days, 3,5,7 or 10 days. Later we do the visarjan where we immerse the idol in a water body. Initially, Lord Ganesha idols were made of clay but with time this was being made with PoP or plaster of Paris. Now, with eco friendly idols back in the trend, people are now moving back to roots and making idols at home to avoid water pollution. Nowadays man made ponds are also used for visarjan or we can do it in a pot.
Click on the below links to make idol at home.
- Eco friendly Ganpati idol using raw vegetables or play dough
- Homemade play dough for Ganesh idol
- Chocolate Ganpati idol
What are different types of modak recipes?
- Traditional Ukadiche modak : This is a gluten free steamed dessert made with a filling of coconut jaggery stuffing and spices like cardamom powder, nutmeg and poppy seeds enclosed in a rice flour pastry. This traditional recipe can also be shaped without a mold. Coconut stuffing is enclosed in the rice flour bonda as a round sweet dumpling, in the south Indian variation.
- Mawa modak: Another popular variety where modak made with instant mawa or khoya and food colors or natural fruit puree or chocolate. I love making Chocolate mawa modak for Ganesh chaviti.
- Mawa modak(with only milk powder): You can make the mawa modak, without making khoya too. Just by adding required milk powder to fruit puree like strawberry. This recipe is much simpler and tastes great. It does not have heavy cream which is great when you are on a diet. Also, great when if you do not have time to make traditional or instant unsweetened mawa or do not have an option to buy it from local dairy.
- Air fried modak : Made with the same filling as Ukadiche modak, but in a casing of whole wheat flour or atta, semolina. They are usually fried in ghee or oil. Here we have made a low oil version by using an air fryer.
Equipment
- Food processor
- Spice grinder/coffee grinder
Ingredients
- Peanut butter unsweetened made with roasted peanuts
- Pitted dates (seeds removed)
- Coconut flour/ desiccated coconut
- Raisins/any dried berries
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
How to make chocolate modak at home?
- Grind the peanuts in a coffee/spice grinder until it resembles a fine powder. Continue to pulse for short intervals till it gels together and oil is released.
2. Pulse all the remaining ingredients along with peanut butter in a food processor.
3. Take a small portion of the mixture and start binding that in your hand. Top tip: Rub a teaspoon coconut oil on your palms to avoid the mixture, from sticking on your hands.
4. Roll little mixture into a small ball and add it to modak molds. Open the mold and remove excess mix to get a proper modak shape. Even kids can help you do this. This entire mixture yields 12 pieces. Store them in an air tight container at room temperature.
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Variation
You can also make dry fruits modak by using almond butter or cashew butter instead of peanut butter above. Use chocolate chips instead of cocoa powder. You may use dark chocolate or milk chocolate as per your choice. Alternatively, you can avoid the chocolate flavor in the above recipe too. It still tastes awesome! Shape of modak can be made big or small depending on the size of the mold.
Storage
You can store them in an air-tight container for a week at room temperature.
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Sugar free chocolate modak recipe
Equipment
- Food processor
- Spice grinder/coffee grinder
Ingredients
- ½ cup peanuts skin removed and roasted
- ½ cup dates pitted
- 2 tbsp. coconut flour/ desiccated coconut
- 2 tbsp. raisins or any dried berries
- 2 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
Instructions
- Grind the peanuts in a coffee/spice grinder until it resembles a fine powder. Continue to pulse for short intervals till it gels together and oil is released.
- Pulse all the remaining ingredients along with peanut butter in a food processor.
- Take a small portion of the mix and start binding that in your hand.
- Roll into balls and add it to modak mold. Open the mold and remove excess mix to get a proper modak shape. This modak mixture yields 12 modaks. Store in an air-tight container at room temperature.
Notes
Nutrition
Conclusion : You can still offer homemade sweets to Ganpathi ji in the festive season, even if you do not have time to make your gulab jamun and besan laddoo. Some other easy festive treat recipes are murmura laddu and chocolate burfi.
It resembles a big bag of money. Symbolizes wealth and sweet things in life. modakapriya Ganesh is a remover of all obstacles in life.
Motichuur laddu, boondi laddu, karanji and besan ke laddu, sattu laddoo are offered to Shri ganesh. Click here for a list of our top Ganesh chaturthi recipes.
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