Indian Cooking Recipe : Modak Ingredients : 2 plantains ¼ pav maida 1 pinch salt 2 cardamom pods 2 tsp sugar ghee for frying Method : Peel plantains. Mash and put sugar, salt, powdered cardamom and maida. Stir properly to make a dough. Heat ghee in frying pan, drop small pellets of dough gently into ghee and deep fry till it turns reddish brown in colour. Instead of ¼ pav maida, fine soji and rice flour mixed with maida (totally ¼ pav) can be used.