Strawberry Choco Chip Cake || Eggless, no oven, no sugar , no maida strawberry choco chip and nuts cake

Today's recipe is for coming Christmas it's a cake - Strawberry choco chip cake / Strawberry choco chip and nuts cake. It is eggless, no oven, no butter, no sugar, no maida cake prepared using whole wheat flour , brown sugar, strawberries, choco chips, dates and lots of nuts. It is very aromatic, healthy, soft, fluffy with crunchy nutty taste. I prepared this cake in wide kadai, do not feel that you do not have oven to prepare cakes. It is easy to prepare cakes in kadai and pressure cooker. Follow all step clearly, surely you will get fluffy, spongy and super delicious cake. Surely your family love this cake, as it is prepared without maida, sugar and butter you can have it without guilt feeling :) . 
check out other eggless and no oven cake

➤ multigrain banana bread

➤ Rava chocolate cake 

➤ Wheat flour carrot cake

If you are okay with using APF and sugar you can replace it with whole wheat flour and brown sugar. If you do not have choco chips no need to worry just replace it with nuts. I added strawberry paste in batter which gives nice flavor to cake. I spread dates, nuts and choco chips as one layer instead of mixing them in batter this gave good even crunchy taste while eating every piece of cake 😋.

This is perfect cake for christmas, birthdays, new year and for any special occasions at home. So surely try this healthy, delectable and tasty cake at home easily and enjoy your special days with your family members.

Taking this Christmas special cake to Foodie Monday Blog Hop fb group's #225ChristmasTreats theme. This week Mayuri di suggested theme - to prepare any any christmas gift recipes from our kitchen. Mayuri di blogs at  Mayuris jikoni, she is very talented chef , do visit her place for different varieties of food from different regions. I surely tell you that you will love her space. I mainly love her write up, she not only explain the recipe but also give full information about recipe and its origins, which i am trying to adopt in my blog :) . i loved many recipes and bookmarked leopard patch spot bread, chocolate-phirni to prepare soon. 

                               

  



                                  Strawberry choco chip and nuts cake 

Preparation time - 15 minutes
Bake Time : 40 - 50 minutes
Serves : 1 cake
Category : Cake
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Strawberry, whole wheat flour
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   



Ingredients

whole wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup

strawberries - 12

oil - 1/2 cup

brown sugar - 3/4 th cup

thick curd - 1/2 cup

milk - 1 small cup(adjust)

cashew nuts - 10

almonds - 10

raisins - 10

dates - 3

choco chip - 2 tsp

baking powder - 1 tsp

baking soda - 1/2 tsp

cinnamon powder - a pinch

sugar powder - 1 tsp

vanilla extract - 1/4 tsp

others

salt - 1 cup

toothpick - 1

stand or small plate -1 

Instructions

1) Heat kadai by adding salt and by placing stand on medium flames till we prepare batter.

                                                          

2) sieve whole wheat flour, baking soda and baking powder, cinnamon powder and keep it aside.

         

3) chop cashew nuts, almonds, raisins and dates and keep it aside.

4) In a large bowl add brown sugar, curd,vanilla extract and mix everything well. Grind 4 strawberries to fine paste and add it to the above with oil. Mix everything well using whisk or ladle till.

5) Add sieved flours to the above mix well by adding little by little milk till you get thick flowing batter consistency.

                                                 

6) dust half tsp of wheat flour on chopped nuts and some choco chips mix it well and chop strawberries.(check tips) Grease cake mould with oil / butter and place butter paper on it and spread half part of cake batter in mould.

7) now spread dusted nuts on the above, later add remaining batter on the nuts and tap it well then arrange chopped strawberries and choco chips on it as shown below or use your own creativity in decorating cake :). But do remember that only 3/4th of mould you have to add.(** check tips)

8) check the heat, place the above cake mould in kadai, close the lid and bake on medium to high flames or 5 minutes , then bake it on low flames for 40 minutes by closing lid.(**check tips for baking in pressure cooker).

9)After 35 to 40 minutes open lid and insert toothpick inside cake, if it came out clearly then switch off flames and let the cake cool otherwise again bake it for some more time.

10) once cake cooled completely to room temperature, scratch the sides of mold and place plate on it and reverse the plate. Tap on cake mould it will come out easily then remove butter paper.(i did not used butter paper as not available at present)

That's it our strawberry choco chips and nuts cake is ready.

At last dust some sugar powder on cake using tea strainer and decorate it with nuts and raisins.

Our super delicious, spongy, fluffy and healthy strawberry cake is ready, enjoy this christmas with your family and friends.... 😍🍓🎄🎅🤶.

Tips

** Remember to preheat kadai for 15 min on medium flames, so that cake will cook on time. 

** instead of wheat flour, brown sugar you can use maida and sugar.

** Add nuts of your choice make sure to dust it some flour so that it wont sink in batter.

** Do not fill the mould completely only 3/t4h of mould is used to add batter, as it will become fluffy while baking.

** If you are using pressure cooker then make sure to remove cookers whistle and gasket.(below pic is my Rava chocolate cake small portion of batter i baked in pressure cooker).

           

** Do not heat kadai/ cooker too long time or on high flames as cake will become hard.

** Do not be panic if you are cake is ready after 40 minute, just bake it for some more time by increasing its flame very bit.

** Adding cinnamon powder is optional but it gives very nice aroma to cake. You can also skip adding cinnamon powder.

** Do not open lid in middle while baking as you do not get fluffy cake.

** You fresh and thick curd.

These are some tips as beginner which i learned while baking, hope these tips are useful to you too 😍

Also check other related recipes by clicking the link below the pic..

                       

multigrain banana bread

                     Rava chocolate cake 

                 Wheat flour carrot cake

                    Rava / Semolina Pizza

              

  
                                             Paneer pinwheels

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Kaju Curry || Kaju Masala Curry || Cashew nut curry || Restaurant style Kaju curry

Kaju Curry is rich, creamy, soft and delicious curry recipe which we regularly have it in marriages and parties. Kaju Curry is North Indian side dish, which we can have it with rotis, parathas, even with jeera rice and also with simple vegetable pulao. There are different variations of preparing Kaju Curry, like using fried cashew nuts, boiled and grinded cashew nuts and also heard of Goan style Kaju Curry but never tasted.  Though I regularly order paneer recipes but recently I had this Kaju Curry with kulcha (And also Kadai paneer with butter naans 😉) for Raksha Bandan with my cousins family @Krishna Bhavan restaurant, Adoni. Had a good food & time with niece Bhanvana and nephew Manoj😍.  Thought to post this Kaju Curry recipe from long back, at last today I am posting on hubby's demand 🤗.

    It is easy to prepare Kaju Curry with easily available ingredients . To prepare this Kaju Curry today I used soaked Kaju and poppy seeds(gasagaslu) paste to get rich creamy taste. Along with tomato puree and fried onions paste. Though the masala's used dominates  the sweetness of cahewnuts  still we get the richness of cashew with nice aroma. 

Let's start Recipe.... 

Kaju Curry ~ Restaurant style Kaju curry

Preparation Time : minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 4 people 
Category : Lunch/ Dinner /tiffin                         box
Recipe Cuisine: North Indian 
Main ingredients : Cashew nuts
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients to prepare Kaju Curry

Ingredients mentioned as per pic.. 

Cashew nuts - 1 cup
Onions - 2 (chopped)
Green chilli - 1 
Ginger - 1 tsp(chopped)
Tomatoes - 2 (chopped)
Cashewnut - 5 (for paste)
Poppy seeds(gasagasalu) - 1tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Elachi - 2 
Cinnamon /dalchini - 1 inch
(From left in pic)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Red Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin/jeera powder - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2tsp
Salt - as per taste
Kasuri Methi - 1 tsp
Butter - 2 tsp
Fresh cream - 2 to 3 tsp 
Oil - 3 tsp
Coriander leaves -१tsp(chopped)

Instructions to prepare Kaju curry :-

1) Soak cashew nuts and poppy seeds in hot water for 15 minutes. 

2) Take a pan add 1 tsp of butter along with cashew nuts.

3) Fry it till they turns golden brown and transfer into plate. 

4) In the same pan add 1 tsp of oil and roughly chopped onions, green chilli and ginger. 

5)  Saute the above well and let it cool. 

6)  Take a mixer jar add chopped tomatoes along with soaked cashew nuts and poppy seeds. 

7) Blend it to smooth paste and take it into cup. 

8) In the same mixer jar add fried onions mixture. 

9) Blend it to smooth paste. 

10) Now take a pan add 2 tsp of oil let it heat for a second add jeera, elachi, cinnamon one after other. Let it fry till you get nice aroma on low flames. 

11) Add prepared onion paste. Fry it on low flames for a minute. (As we already fried onions)

12) Then add tomato cashew paste to the above. 

13) Mix everything well, fry it till it oozes oil out. 

14) Then add spices turmeric, red chilli, cumin, coriander, pepper powders and salt.

15) Mix the above well by adding 1  glass of water. Adjust water as per your quantity.  Then add fresh cream mix everything well on low flame. Otherwise fresh cream will curdle. 

16) Add fried cashew nuts. 

18) mix the above and close the lid and cook for 3-5 minutes on low flames. 

19) Open the lid and add garam masala, kasuri Methi and give a quick mix. 

20) Close the lid and cook for 2 minutes lastly add finely cooped coriander leaves. Adjust water if it seems too thick. 

  Creamy and delicious Kaju Curry is ready.  Take it in a bowl garnish with cashew nuts, butter and coriander leaves. 

  We had this Kaju Curry with vegetable pulao for lunch. Enjoy your weekend with your loved ones 😍. 

 And had left over Kaju Curry with rotis for dinner😋😋. 

Note

◆ Instead of using cut half cashew nuts you can use whole kaju's. 

◆ You can also use garlic while frying ginger. 

 ◆ Adding fresh cream is optional. If fresh cream not available  you can add malai(megada) on low flames. 

◆ Instead of kasuri Methi you can also use dried Methi leaves. 

◆ Instead of butter you can also use ghee. 

◆ Adjus water as per your requirement. 

Tips

● To get  rich and cream texture I used soaked cashew nuts and poppy seeds paste along with tomatoes. (You can skip this cashew nd poppy seeds in 
paste). 

● Fry cashew nuts on low flames, so that they do not burn. 

 ●Kaju Curry texture will be bit thick. Adjust thickness according your wish. 

Check out few curry  and other recipes👇 

               paneer butter masala

                          Kadai Paneer

                      khova paneer 

              Sweet Coconut paratha

                                             Lachha paratha

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