Ingredients:
Chocolate(Milk chocolate and dark chocolate in 8:2 proportion) 170g
Almonds 15
Sugar 4 tsp
Butter 3-4 tsp
Dry fruits chopped 1/4 cup
Procedure:
- Weigh chocolate on weighing scale.Take chocolate in microproof bowl and add 1 tsp butter to it and microwave at high power for 1 minute.
- Chocolate would melt mix both the chocolates properly
- Take almonds in a pan and dry roast at medium flame for 5 minutes then switch off the gas and add 1 tsp butter to it.
- Switch on the gas and at medium flame dry roast chopped dry fruits for 2-3 minutes and take it out.
- In the same pan add 4 tsp sugar let it caramalise stir continuosly( keep the flame low) and when it turns brown switch off the gas and 1 tsp butter.
- Now switch on the gas keep the flame low and add dry roasted dry fruits. Stir continuosly for 5 minutes and switch off the gas.let it cool down. After 10-15 minutes chikki is formed remove it from pan and add 1 tsp butter stir it continuously and add dry fruits.let it cool down.Then chikki would be formed after 10-15 minutes. Remove chikki from pan and mash it with the help of pestle in the same pan and keep it aside for a while.
- Now grease silicon with butter or oil then fill half of mould with melted chocolate then add crushed dry fruit chikki layer in the middle and cover the top with melted chocolate as shown in the video. Fill the entire heart shaped silicon mould in similar manner.
- Now take greased modak mould add roasted almonds in it and cover it with melted chocolate.
- Tap both the moulds slightly to remove air bubble.
- Refrigerate both the moulds for about 30 minutes until chocolate hardens.
- Now demould all chocolates as shown in the video.
- Let ganpati have this innovative almond modak.
Tip: If after demoulding modak your almonds are visible then fill 1 tsp melted chocolate in modak mould and dip your chocolate modaks (whose almonds were visible) in it .Refrigerate and remove when chocolate gets hardened you would get a perfect finished look.
Easy and delicious...
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