Kanakeche Dive – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Heat up water in a pan.
• Add gudh and let it melt.
• When gudh melts turn off the gas. No need to make syrup.
• Let the mixture cool down.
• Take wheat flour into a dish and add rava, oil, salt to taste.
• Rava helps to make these diyas a little crispy.
• Mix everything well together.
• Add the gudh mixture a little at a time and knead thick dough.
• The dough should not be thin at all.
• Transfer the dough into a bowl, cover and rest it for about 15-20 minutes.
• Take the dough and knead it little to make smooth and even.
• Take a small portion of dough and make a pari or katori as we make for modak.
• Give that pari a shape if diya from one side.
• Heat up water in the steamer pot.
• You can steam the diyas in a kadhai or a pot or cooker if you don’t have steamer.
• Put a banana leaf in other pot and grease it well with oil so that diyas won’t stick to it.
• Put the diyas on the banana leaf and put the pot on other pot.
• Diyas puff up while steaming. So make sure to leave some gap between them.
• Cover and steam diyas on medium heat for about 15-20 minutes.
• Let the diyas cool down kanakeche diyas are already.