Mumbai chefs share unique recipes of modaks for you to relish

Updated On: 27 January, 2023 02:50 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

This Ganeshotsav, move over the traditional modak and try your hands at adding a twist to it or simply something new. Mumbai chefs share unique recipes to make the sweet dish loved by Lord Ganesh. They not only suggest making a healthy-savoury version, but also prod you to add tangerine, pineapple and even puranpoli

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While coconut is traditionally used to make the sweet, the pineapple crush in the Tropical Modak gives it a mouth-watering fruity flavour.. Photo Courtesy: Genda Phool

The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the most celebrated festivals in the city and every year Mumbaikars get very excited for the festive season because they await the arrival of ‘Bappa’. The fact that people haven’t been soak in the festivities in the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic is another reason why this time the city is going to come alive with song, dance and fanfare in its full capacity. Now, we all know that Ganeshotsav is incomplete without good food, especially the Modak, which is known to be the favourite sweet of Lord Ganesha.

Every year, devotees prepare a lot of modaks and offer it to the elephant-headed deity. After which they gorge on the sweet themselves and even serve it to guests who come visiting during this time of the year. It is not only those who worship the son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati who enjoy the sweet but also every other person who lives in the city who tastes a modak at least once during the 10 days.

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