Mumbai food: Modak goes complicated with offbeat fillings and varieties

There’s one thing that we all adore about Ganesh Chaturthi, over a generous festivities and pandal-hopping. It is a modak, a entire coconut-filled, steamed or boiled sweet, famous to be a elephant god’s favourite.

This year, home chefs and bakers are experimenting with flavours, textures and mixture to emanate new varities. There are paneer, marzipan and chocolate modaks, stuffings that embody droughty fruit, fudge or Nutella, and even cupcakes with a normal modak filling. We’re certain a elephant God would adore them.

Marzipan modaks

Add some 24 karat bullion and 18 karat china to your celebrations with marzipan chocolate modaks. “This year, we’ve combined china and bullion marzipan modaks for those who wish their modaks to be something special,” says Thea Tammeleht, founder, Nordic Kandie. These modaks are done regulating almonds alien from Iran, lonesome in Belgian chocolate and pristine succulent bullion and silver; they are accessible in hampers too.
At Nordic Kandie, Vasant Villa, Peddar Road. COST R180 (plain), R280 (silver), R562 (gold)
Call 9699641112

Cupcake modaks

Anees Khan of StarAnise Patisserie has combined modak cupcakes, in partnership with Rushina Ghildiyal of APB Cook Studio. These vanilla cupcakes are surfaced with coconut-flavoured buttercream and filled with freshly-grated coconut with jaggery and brownish-red sugar. “This gives we a ambience of a modak though in a opposite form,” says Khan.
Cost Rs 550 for 10
At StarAnise Pâtisserie, Linking Road, Bandra (W).
Call 26404386

Chocolate boiled modaks

“These are my take on normal boiled modaks. The textures sojourn a same — they are crunchy outward and soothing inside,” says Bhumika Bhurani, owner of Hot Mama Bakes that’s introduced these modaks for a initial time. The modaks have a coconut stuffing churned with chocolate, giving it
the hardness and ambience of fudge. There’s also a Nutella chronicle with a slimey centre.
Cost R150 for five, Rs 300 for 11 pieces, Rs 550 for 21 pieces.
Call 9833739961 (orders tighten by Sep 1)

Chocolate modaks in a wafer shell 

Paneer modaks

The versatile lodge cheese finds inflection in modaks combined by Minnie Pooja of Madezze. The modaks come in flavours like custard, coconut, gulkhand, chocolate and kesar pista. The paneer is done regulating cow’s divert so a modaks are low in fat. “This is a new form of honeyed that people adore — they use a modaks for puja and to give as gifts. We use good-quality mixture and a paneer is one of a best we will find in a city,” says Pooja. The modaks final 4 days.
Cost Starts during Rs 80 for two
Call 7738760333

Modak pops
IF YOU cite carrying a modaks around, try a modak pop. Khushboo Doshi’s Bliss over Bite will be offered chocolate modaks in dual ways — as a cocktail or in a bombard (so that it looks like an acorn). The modak pops are done of white, dim or raspberry-flavoured chocolate. The bombard modaks have a wafer bombard holding a chocolate modak. “I wanted to do something fun for a season,” says Doshi.
Cost Rs 100 for 5 pops, Rs 200 for 5 shells
Call 9699850002 (three days of allege notice)

Mango, kiwi, orange modaks
Every year, Deepti Chandnani, owner of a four-year-old Cocheta Chocolates, comes adult with fun new candy for a festival. Last year, it was cake-filled chocolate modaks. This year, she is focusing on fruit. Her chocolate modaks come in orange, kiwi, blueberry, mango, and roasted almond. The centre of a modaks is filled with droughty fruit or nuts. “Customers cite them as they are different, have a longer shelf life and work as good gifting options,” says Chandnani who creates a chocolates herself and uses an oil-based hint for a flavours.
Cost Rs 200 onwards
Call 9702054064 (four days of notice allege notice)

Belgian chocolate

“This is my favourite festival and we wanted to do something engaging for it. we suspicion it indispensable a bit of jazz and a chocolate modaks we get outward aren’t interesting. So we motionless to emanate something that we would wish to eat,” says Ayesha Gotla, owner of R Deli. The company, started final Dec creates handmade chocolates. For Ganesh Chaturthi, they are stocking chocolate modaks with soothing centres, filled with lemon rose, nutella, coconut, white, milks or dim chocolate. Each modak is palm embellished and can be customized by colour; we can even write messages on it.
Cost Rs 150 onwards for mini modaks, Rs 550 onwards for a large modak
Call 9987573456 (one day allege notice)

Fudge modaks
Divisha Jadhwani, owner of Jars and Journeys, creates chocolate fudge modaks. “These have my homemade fudge and are flavoured — chocolate, dry fruit or walnuts,” she says. The modaks final for dual days.
Cost Rs 600 per kg (10 pieces)
Call 9920464566 (one day allege notice)

Also read…

Recipes: In-house honeyed treats for Ganesh Utsav (Read more)

Ganeshotsav food special: Modak marzipans, anyone? (Read more)

Ganeshotsav food special: A modak for each Mumbaikar (Read more)

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