Modak Mold
神様の大好物を美しく包む！タマネギ型のプリーツを生み出す魔法のプラスチック型
Description
Special mold to form 'Modak'—sweet rice flour steamed dumplings considered the favorite of Hindu elephant-headed god 'Ganesha'—into beautiful onion-like pleated shapes.
Classification: For Families,Molding Tool,Sweets Making
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How to use
Ingredients
- Plastic
- Aluminum
- Wood
Instructions
- Prepare dough (wrapper) kneading rice flour with hot water, and sweet filling frying coconut/brown sugar (Jaggery).
- Lightly oil the inside of Modak Mold, close mold.
- Push rice dough through bottom hole with fingers, spreading thin along inside to make a cavity.
- Stuff sweet filling into cavity, cover bottom with dough, open mold, and an artistically pleated Modak pops out. Steam in steamer to finish.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
None
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Pleat and wrap by hand (subbable with Xiaolongbao/meat bun wrapping tech)
Pairing
Modak (Sweet steamed dumplings of rice flour and coconut)
Trivia
[Hardcore] Skilled grandmothers make splendid pleats using only fingertips without molds, but in modern homes, these plastic molds—like those sold at 100-yen shops—are highly active. Modak is an exquisite sweet 'chewy outside, juicily sweet inside' piercing deeply into Japanese wagashi lovers' souls.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Usage] During Ganesha Chaturthi (Ganesha's birthday festival), the whole family mass-produces dozens of Modaks using this mold, offering to the god then stuffing cheeks simultaneously!
Allergen
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