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Celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi with a mix of traditional and modern recipes from classic modaks and sabudana tikki to rich kheer that make your festival both delicious and auspicious.
Ganesh Chaturthi 2025: Delight your taste buds this Ganesh Chaturthi with traditional modaks, kheer, and sabudana tikki!. (File Photo)
Ganesh Chaturthi, the vibrant festival celebrating Lord Ganesha, is incomplete without the divine aroma of traditional sweets and festive delicacies. From the iconic modaks—soft, sweet dumplings believed to be Lord Ganesha’s favorite—to innovative twists like Ukadiche Modak with Bourbon, this festival offers a delightful culinary journey. Savory treats like sabudana tikki and poha add the perfect balance to the festive spread, making it ideal for family gatherings and prasadam offerings. Incorporating seasonal ingredients such as coconut, jaggery, and milk, these recipes not only honor age-old traditions but also cater to contemporary palates. Whether you prefer classic steamed modaks, crunchy fried treats, or easy-to-make kheer, Ganesh Chaturthi recipes bring warmth, devotion, and indulgence to your celebrations. Explore this curated selection of authentic and modern Ganesh Chaturthi recipes, and make your festival joyous, flavorful, and Instagram-worthy.
Ukadiche Modak with a Bourbon Twist
Ingredients:
Rice flour dough (rice flour, hot water, ghee, salt)
Stuffing: Desiccated coconut, jaggery, cardamom, nutmeg, crushed Bourbon biscuits
Method:
Prepare soft rice flour dough with hot water, ghee, and salt.
Cook coconut and jaggery in ghee until melted, then add cardamom, nutmeg, and Bourbon biscuits.
Shape dough into small cups, fill with mixture, pleat and seal.
Steam until cooked. Drizzle with ghee before serving.
Black Sesame Modak
Ingredients:
Black sesame seeds, jaggery, ghee
Method:
Dry roast sesame, grind into powder.
Cook jaggery with little water into syrup.
Stir in sesame powder and ghee.
Shape into modaks while warm and let set.
Bourbon Choco-Besan Modak
Ingredients:
Roasted besan, ghee, crushed Bourbon biscuits, sugar, nuts, cardamom, saffron, milk
Method:
Roast besan in ghee until fragrant.
Add Bourbon biscuits, sugar, nuts, cardamom, saffron.
Stir in milk until mixture thickens.
Press into greased moulds, steam for 10–12 mins, cool, garnish with pistachios.
Kunafa Chocolate Pistachio Modak (by Filo Chocolate)
Ingredients (per modak):
Milk couverture chocolate, kunafa strands, butter, pistachio paste, roasted pistachios
Method:
Bake kunafa strands with butter at 170°C until crisp. Crush.
Mix with pistachio paste (+pistachios if desired). Chill.
Temper chocolate and coat silicone modak moulds. Refrigerate briefly.
Fill with pistachio-kunafa mix, seal with more chocolate.
Chill until set. Garnish with pistachio or silver leaf.
Saviya Kheer by Swapnadeep Mukherjee, Executive Chef, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa
Ingredients:
Vermicelli – 100 g
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Raisins – 4 tbsp
Sliced almonds – 4 tbsp
Full cream milk – 2½ cups
Sugar – ½ cup
Powdered cardamom – ½ tsp
Method:
Break vermicelli into finger-sized pieces.
In a thick-bottom saucepan, roast vermicelli, raisins, and almonds in ghee on low heat until light brown.
Add milk, stir, and bring to a boil over medium heat.
Simmer, then add sugar and cardamom; cook for 1 minute.
Serve hot or chilled.
Almond & Goji Berry Boondi Laddoo
Ingredients:
Batter: Besan, water, cardamom
Add-ins: Almond slivers, goji berries, ghee
Syrup: Sugar, water, saffron
Method:
Prepare one-string sugar syrup with saffron.
Make boondi by dropping batter into hot oil, fry lightly.
Dip in syrup, strain, then mix with almonds, goji, and ghee.
Shape into laddoos.
Almond & Amaranth Laddoo
Ingredients:
Popped amaranth, jaggery, almond slivers
Method:
Mix all ingredients well.
Shape into small laddoos while warm.
Almond & Sesame Pinni
Ingredients:
Wheat flour, semolina, besan, sugar, water, ghee, cardamom, almond slivers, sesame
Method:
Roast flour + semolina in ghee until golden.
Prepare sugar syrup (1-string).
Mix syrup with roasted flour, add sesame + almonds.
Shape into pinnis, roll in sesame, garnish with almonds.
Almond & Makhana Kheer
Ingredients:
Milk, sugar, saffron, cardamom, almonds, makhana, ghee
Method:
Roast almonds + makhana in ghee.
Boil milk with saffron and sugar.
Add roasted makhana and almonds, simmer till thick.
Serve warm or chilled, garnished with nuts.
Almond Millet Mathi with Chilli Yoghurt Dip
Ingredients:
Dough: Pearl millet flour, almond flour, all-purpose flour, potato, onion, ginger, chilli, spices, coriander, roasted almonds
Dip: Greek yoghurt, ginger, chilli, coriander, cumin, salt
Method:
Mix all dough ingredients, rest 30 mins. Shape into discs.
Pan-sear with ghee till golden.
Serve with yoghurt dip.
Almond, Sweet Potato & Pomegranate Chaat with White Pea Ragda
Ingredients:
Almonds, boiled sweet potato, pomegranate, white peas, onion, tomato, chutneys, spices
Method:
Cook white peas into ragda, season with onion, tomato, lemon, spices.
Mix sweet potato, almonds, and pomegranate with chutneys + chaat masala.
Plate ragda, top with almond chaat. Garnish with coriander.
Sabudana Tikki by Swapnadeep Mukherjee, Executive Chef, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa
Ingredients:
Sabudana (sago) – 250 g
Boiled, peeled potato – 100 g
Roasted, crushed peanuts – 50 g
Finely chopped ginger – 10 g
Finely chopped green chili – 10 g
Finely chopped coriander – 10 g
Cumin powder – 5 g
Salt & black pepper – to taste
Desi ghee/refined oil – 50 ml
Method:
Soak sabudana for 30 minutes, then drain.
In a bowl, mix potato, peanuts, ginger, chili, coriander, cumin, salt, and pepper.
Shape mixture into small flat patties.
Heat a tawa, roast patties with a few tsp ghee until golden brown on both sides.
Serve hot with chutney of choice.
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