Kadubu/ Steamed sweet momo’s

This is one of the healthy & traditional recipe favourite of God Ganeshji. All the items used in this recipe are very healthy.

Type: Sweet

Serving: As desired

Cooking time: 30minutes

Ingredients:

Rice flour – 3 cups

Water – 2 cups

Ghee – 2 teaspoon

Refined Jaggery – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – ½ teaspoon

Poppy seed – 2 teaspoon

Fried gram – ½ cup

Grated Copra – ½ cup

Groundnuts  - ½ cup

White sesame seeds – 3 teaspoons

Preparation method:

Take a pan dry roast all these items separately under low flame. Groundnuts, poppy seeds, fried gram, grated copra, sesame seeds, keep all the items separately. Skin out groundnuts skin.

Grinding process:

Grind the above roasted items into a fine powder separately, Grind jaggery into powder. Now mix it well with cardamom powder.

Preparation of dough:

Boil the water in a vessel & add rice flour into it, let the flame be on medium flame for 2minutes. Turnoff the flame mix rice flour well with a spatula/wooden stick without any lumps in it. Now take small quantity of rice dough roll it round(ideally lemon size).

Now take 2 plastic sheets & cut it into 12 /12cm now grease the centre of sheet with ghee or you can use maida for rolling purpose. Roll the ball into puri shape but thiner than puri. Stuff the grinded mixture of 1spoon in centre close it press the corner of it so the stuffing does’nt come out. You can give any shape as you desire. Steam cook it for 5 minutes, let it cool for 5 minutes serve it.  

Another way of wrapping is make a small ball of rice dough grease your hands from ghee start pressing rice ball from centre to corner into a bowl shape stuff it with a spoon of sweet mixture press the ends properly steam it in idli cooker for 5 minutes. Let it cool for 5 minutes serve it hot or cold.

Steaming process:

Take a cooker preferably idli cooker pour water in the bottom of the cooker place the plate in it with stuffed momo’s close the lid & steam it for 5 minutes, if it is a pressure cooker pour water of less than 1/4^th portion of cooker place a bowl in the middle & place the momo plate on the bowl close the lid but don’t put the weight on it steam for 5 minutes cool it for 5 more minutes so that it won’t stic to hand.

Best serving with Ghee, plain poppy seed  & coconut milk.