Chocolate modak recipe | How to make chocolate modak recipe

Chocolate modak recipe – A fusion modak for Lord Ganpati made with cocoa powder, cadbury chocolate and milk powder (dry mawa or khoya) base. Milk, milk powder, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, cadbury chocolate bar and chopped dry fruits (dry nuts) are the secret ingredients for making this chocolaty flavours modak recipe. Without using mawa or milk solids or even condensed milk and dark chocolate, this chocolate modak makes it tastes awesome. Today we will learn how to make chocolate modak at home with and without mould, guided with step-by-step pictures.

This chocolate modak is totally different from the traditional steamed or ukadiche modak recipe. But kept the ukadiche modak coconut stuffing idea in my mind, I stuffed this chocolate modak with roughly chopped dry fruits. This lifts the taste of this sweet twice, even you may skip this portion if you don’t like dry nuts in your modak. It is a very simple and easy-to-make modak recipe with easily available ingredients at your home. 

Modak or modakam has different varieties, apart from steamed ones, people make a lot more different types of modak. Such as Mawa modak, Suji modak, Coconut modak, Ladoo modak, Kaju modak, Dry fruits modak and many more.  

Enjoy this Ganesh Chaturthi with this super soft yummy milk powder chocolate modak, and Please let me know your valuable feedback after making this chocolate modak at home. Just by writing down the feedback in the comment section below. Even you can share any unique madak making ideas if you have, I will surely publish that recipe in my blog post with your name.

You may also try my special ukadiche modak or steamed modak recipe

                          Ganesh Chaturthi special ukadiche modak recipe

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all of you, may the blessings of Ganesha bring good luck to you and your family.

How to make chocolate modak step by step (with pictures)

Making dough

• First, take 1+1/2 cup pre-boiled milk (at room temperature) in a pan. Then mix the chocolate or cocoa powder with it.

• Stir it till the chocolate or cocoa powder completely melt down into the milk.

• Then place the mixture to the low heat and add powdered sugar to it. Stir it nicely.

• After cooking the mixture for a few minutes, add milk powder to it in 2-3 batches in the mix. Continuous stirring is required to make it lump-free.

• After continuous stirring on a low flame, the mixture will reach a thick consistency. Then add the small cadbury chocolate bar to it.

• When the chocolate completely melts down into the mixture, make it thick by continuous stirring. As shown in the pic. Don’t forget to stir it after every few seconds, as chances are there to stick to the bottom.

• After some time the mixture will start to leave the bottom and the sidewall of the pan. As shown in the pic.

• When the mixture completely leaves the pan and comes to the middle of the pan like dough. Then turn off the heat.

• Chocolated dough is ready, place the dough on a plate that was nicely greased with ghee.

• Now let it completely cool down. In the meantime, chop the almonds and cashew nuts, and keep it in a bowl.

How to shape it with mould

• When the chocolate dough cools down, to shape up the modak, first, take the mould (plastic or steel mould) and greased its inner wall with ghee.

• First, grease your palms and make a small ball from the dough. Put it on one side of the mould.

• Then close the mould tightly and remove the excess part of the dough, coming out through the sides of mold.

• Now grease your pointer finger, turn the mould upside down and make a hole through the bottom of the modaks. As shown in the picture.

Stuff chocolate modak with dry fruit

• First, make sure, modak’s cover must not be too thin. Then remove the extra part which was coming out of the side of the mould.

• Then take some chopped nuts, and stuff the modak with it.

• Now, little press the nuts down and cover the bottom portion with a little amount of dough. After that press its bottom by your pam to make it flat.

• Then gently remove it from the mould and keep it on a plate greased with ghee.

Making without mould (by hand)

• Even if you don’t have any mould, then shape up this modak with your hand.
• Take a lemon size ball from the chocolate dough, then fill the chopped nuts in the middle of the dough. As shown in the picture below.
• Then roll it by hand just how to make coconut laddoo and lastly shape this modak like a cone. As shown in the picture below.

• Continue the same process of making modak until the mixture is not finished.

• After making this chocolate modak keep it in an airtight container for offering it to Ganpati Bappa to this Ganesh Chaturthi.