Tavsali / Cucumber Cake
About Tavsali / Cucumber Cake
Tavsali is traditional recipe from goa. it is very unique cake made with yellow cucumber but we can make this cake with green cucumber too. It is a steamed cake and very nutricious in summer days . As cucumber is generally comes in summers so this is a total summer recipe from goa. Got this recipe from Adsana recipes.
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Ingredients
- cup Sooji or rava half rava
- cup Cucumber one grated
- 1/4 cup Coconut Powder or coconut fresh grated or dry coconut
- cup Powdered Jaggery half
- 2 tsp cardamom powder
- 6-7 Almonds finely chopped
- Clarified Butter or oil some oil for greasing
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Instructions
- First dry roast rava for about 5-6 minutes in low flame .
- Now in a big bowl take all dry ingredients as roasted rava , jaggery powder,cardamom powder , dry coconut powder .Mix all ingredients well .
- Now take grated green cucumber.
- Add this grated cucumber and chopped almonds to dry ingredients and mix well .
- Don't add any milk or liquid , cucumber water is sufficient for batter . Batter should be not very thick or thin.
- Now grease the cake tin with oil and pour cake batter . Now steam it in steamer for about 15- 20 minutes .
- Turn of the gas burner and let cool down the cake .Tavsali is ready .
- When compeletly cool down then cut into small pieces and garnish with chopped almonds . Enjoy tavsali.
Recipe Notes
in original recipe they use fresh coconut and yellow cucumber . In US i didnt find yellow one so i have used green but it equally tastes good . i have used dry coconut powder instrad of fresh one but it has not effected the taste.
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This looks so appetizing! Thank you.
Great recipe! I’m eager to try it.
Looks so delicious! Thanks for the recipe.