With the upcoming festivities Ganesh Utsav celebrated across several parts of India, ( The 10 day celebrations of Lord Ganesh, the Elephant Buddha!) most of us would be busy preparing for the event and most importantly preparing foods favourite to Lord Ganesh !
Interestingly I realised that all the various foods offered to lord Ganesh are complete and wholesome foods. I shall post 10 recipes over the next days which are wholesome and nutritious foods. Let me start with Lord's fav food "MODAK"
There are several variations to Modak that have been adopted over several parts of India. However the traditional recipe is as follows :
Make a dough with rice flour cooked in milk, allow it to cool, now make a mix of jaggery, fresh coconut grated and cardamom powder. Make small dumplings as showing in the pic and fill the dumplings with this mix and steam in pressure cooker for 10 -15 minutes and serve hot with clarified butter !
Now is this stuff really wholesome and nutritious ? Lets see :
1. Rice - rich in carbs and high biological value protein
2. Milk- protein and calcium rich
3. Jaggery - Minerals and Iron apart from calories
4. coconut rich in fiber, several essential fatty acids , vit-E and A
5. cardamom spice to add the extra flavour and antioxidants to the sweet dish
6. Cooked over steam so no fat required except for 5 gm of clarified butter again a better option compared to butter and other saturated fats
Now should we call it a complete food, yes of course , so please go ahead and take a hands on now ............... :)
Always remember any thing in excess is dangerous !
Ganapati Bappa Moriyaa ! Mangal Moorthi Moriyaa!
