MODAKA

INGREDIENTS:
For Unde
1 Cup Rice
1 Cup Coconut
Water
Salt - as per taste
For Stuffing
Jaggery
Coconut- Fresh/Frozen
Cardamom powder

METHOD:

Mix grated or powdered jaggery with coconut and add cardamom powder if desired and keep it aside. This mixture will be used as stuffing for Rice balls.

Soak the rice in hot water for about 2 hours
Grind rice along with the water used for soaking to a course paste. Add fresh coconut and salt at the end and churn it for a couple of mins so both coconut and the rice are coarsely ground( like that of idli batter).
Now in a heavy bottom pan add about 4 more cups of water to the above batter and keep stirring constantly mashing small lumps that will be formed during this process. Continue this until the batter becomes thick and forms a single mass.
Slowly make small rice balls out of the above when the mixture is still warm to hot. To do this dip your hands in cold water and immediately carefully form small table tennis ball.
Carefully flatten the ball and stuff a spoon full of jaggery mix inside (just like the way you would do for stuffed parathas) and cover the mix to form a nice ball again.
Steam cook for about 12 to 14 mins.