One of the famous festivals of the year – Ganesh Chaturthi – starts today (on August 31, 2022). This is a 10 day festival ending with Ganesh Visarjan on the last day. Besides offering puja and bhog to Lord Ganesha, another attraction of the festival is the food. During these 10 days, we continued to train, keeping all thoughts related to our diet at bay. Bollywood actor Bhumi Pednekar seems to be too. If you follow her on Instagram, you’ll know that Bhumi is a foodie and never misses an opportunity to indulge in delicious food. And traditionally, she looks forward to enjoying a classic Maharashtrian delicacy in Ganapati Mahotsav. Can you guess the food? It’s the quintessential ukadiche modak.
Bhumi Pednekar took to Instagram to share two posts. The first post featured her wish, “Good morning… Wishing you lots of modaks today… I’m sure.”
Also read: Bhumi Pednekar’s food stories will make your mouth water; Look at the Video
Image credit: Instagram
And in the next story, we can see her enamored with ukadiche modak in a classic way. First, she divided the soft modak into two parts, added a layer of buttered rice paper to it, and took a bite. It sounds delicious; right Here’s a glimpse into Bhumi’s passionate Insta story.
Image credit: Instagram
Like us, if you too are slurping, here we have a recipe for you to make Maharashtrian ukadiche modak at home. Find it below.
Ganesh Chaturthi 2022: How to Create Maharashtrian Ukadiche Modak:
Ukadiche modak is a steamed modak made from rice flour and jaggery, with coconut filling. It is also seasoned with various masalas including cardamom and nutmeg.
All you need to do is knead the plain rice flour, stuff it with spiced palm-coconut sugar, put it all in a mold and steam it.
Finally, eat the modak with just the right amount of ghee added. Click here for the complete recipe.
For other modak recipes, click here.
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi 2022, everyone!
About Somdatta SahaExplorer- this is what Somdatta likes to call himself. Whether it’s about food, people or places, all she craves is to know the unknown. A simple aglio olio or daal-chawal and a good movie can set her off to a new day.
