Modaks are a traditional sweet offered to Lord Ganesha during Ganesh Chaturthi. Typically made with rice flour and mawa (khoya), you can prepare a lighter, healthier version by skipping the mawa and ...

Combine dark chocolate and orange marmalade and mix well, allowing chocolate to melt until the mixture is smooth in consistency. Melt milk chocolate using the double boiler method and keep it aside.

When I asked my mother about her memories of modak, she narrated a story so vivid that I felt like I was there—in a chawl in the central Mumbai neighbourhood of Dadar, watching the ladies of her ...