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Recipe: Millet Sesame Modaks

September 07, 2022 17:24 IST

Executive Chef Suraj Sahoo's healthy, gluten-free, low-calorie Millet Sesame Modaks offer a regional flavour from Andhra Pradesh where they celebrate Ganesh Utsav with modaks and laddoos, sometimes giant ones of 580 kg each.

Ragi or finger millet is easily available in Vijayawada, and it's a preferred ingredient, often part of dishes served for breakfast, lunch and even dinner.

The sesame seeds or nuvvula in this recipe also bring a little health benefit. As for the stuffing, Chef Sahoo has used two local favourites, right-out-of-the shell coconut and jaggery, which add the sweet notes.

These modaks suit those on a diabetic, vegan or low-cal diet.

Chef Sahoo earned his degree in the culinary arts at the Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Catering in Bhubaneswar.

Photographs: Novotel Vijayawada Varun

Ragi Nuvvula Modaks

Serves: 4-5

Ingredients

For the shell

For the stuffing

Method

For the shell

For the stuffing

Assembly

 

Suraj Sahoo is the Executive Chef at Novotel Vijayawada Varun.

 

Chef SURAJ SAHOO