cucumber cake

cucumber cake recipe – this eggless cucumber cake is a traditional recipe from the goan belt and is called as tavsali. in this recipe the cake is steamed instead of baking it. generally we use yellow cucumber, but the recipe can be even made with regular cucumber or the long dark green cucumbers. apart from cucumber,…

Ingredients :
Grated Cucumber: 2 (medium sized) appx 4 cups
Semolina/soji (roasted): 2 cups
Grated jaggery: 1 ½ cup
Grated coconut: 1cup
Green cardamoms: 5
Salt: 1tspn
Ghee: 2 tspn

Method :
Grate the cucumber, dry roast rava/soji.
Add all the ingredients except cardamom in a pan and mix well.
Heat the pan on low flame and when mixture almost gets dry add cardamom and mix well.
Cook till all water evaporates and mixture gets dry totally.
Grease the baking dish with 1 tspn of ghee.
Add the mixture to the baking dish, add 1 tspn of ghee and mix.
Level the mixture with a spoon tip.
Bake in oven for 30 mins or till done and cut into pieces.