A Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all the readers of my blog. I pray that lord Ganesha bestows prosperity, luck and blessings to everyone. Sorry for the late post about Ganesh Chaturthi..
The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is one festival I have grown up with. I would see as a kid how the devotees of lord Ganesha would bring him and worship him with so much devotion in their homes. This aspect of devotion and gratitude became a part of me and is something which i still have. i can never forget those days when I would simply wait for Ganesh Chaturthi festival and would not like when we had to leave lord Ganesha...
I would wait to have the sumptuous feast, the prashad/prasad or naivedya or bhog that was first offered to lord Ganesha and then to us. This feast had its own beautiful feeling of love and devotion infused in it...
The vegetarian feast is served on plantain leaf, would consist of panchamrit, rice pooris or vades (a malvani recipe of puris made from flour comprising of lentils, rice flour etc), steamed rice, a beans or cauliflower or potato veggie dish, dal or varan bhaat and ofcourse and obviously modak lord Ganesha’s favorite sweet...
The vegetarian feast is served on plantain leaf, would consist of panchamrit, rice pooris or vades (a malvani recipe of puris made from flour comprising of lentils, rice flour etc), steamed rice, a beans or cauliflower or potato veggie dish, dal or varan bhaat and ofcourse and obviously modak lord Ganesha’s favorite sweet...
Modak is a favourite sweet of the family too. We all like the sweet jaggery and coconut filling inside the modak. This filling has a resemblance to the filling used in patholi (a konkani recipe of steamed sweet rice flour delicacy made in turmeric leaves). Patholi is a sweet that is made during the gauri – ganesh festival in the regions of Konkan & Goa...
I remember having plenty of modaks only during Ganesh Chaturthi and not any other time. I would always ask my mother to make them at other times and she would not make them. Now I know why she wouldn't make them... Its takes quite some time to make modaks and can be a messy affair, especially if you don’t get the things right.
I remember having plenty of modaks only during Ganesh Chaturthi and not any other time. I would always ask my mother to make them at other times and she would not make them. Now I know why she wouldn't make them... Its takes quite some time to make modaks and can be a messy affair, especially if you don’t get the things right.
By practice, you will learn to make better modaks at home. preparing modaks does require patience & effort. The pleated or fluted effect on modak comes through practice.
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