Thursday 25 April 2019

Whole wheat flour carrot cake, Eggless,no maida, no oven carrot in Kadai / pressure cooker, Atta carrot cake

Today's recipe is carrot cake using wheat flour in Kadai. This carrot cake is very delectable, spongy, tasty and healthy. I used wheat flour, grated carrot, almonds and raisins to make it more healthy. Today I used sugar for sweetness, will plan to use jaggery for my future cakes. As I have small pressure cooker in which my mould do not fit. So I used big Kadai to prepare this. We all love cakes, when it is prepared in healthy way then we love bit more 😍.  I am not expert in baking, semolina/ rava cake is my 1 st cake which I prepared for #MMC fb group competition, my 2nd cake was Rava chocolate cake which i prepared for my anniversary and it is my 1st cake in blog. And this whole wheat flour carrot cake is my 3rd cake 😍🤞. I myself felt that I improved alot, obviously we all learn from our mistakes.  Will share all tips I followed to get perfect cake 😍🤗. 



  Today's cake is sudden surprise to my hubby as he presented heart shaped cake mould and few other mould 2 months back. As I was in vaccation dint got chance to prepare it and preparing this cake is unplanned. D't be panic, trust me this cake turned very tasty, spongy, moist and in perfect thickness and shape. 



Let's start recipe... 

          Wheat flour carrot cake

Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cook Time : 35 - 40 minutes
Serves : 400gms (approx)
Category : cakes
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Wheat flour, grated carrot
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients 

Wheat flour - 11/2 glass
Grated carrot - 1 glass
Powdered sugar -  3/4rth -  1 glass
Vegetable Oil - 3/4 glass + 2 tsp
Milk - 3/4 glass
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder(dalchini) - 1tsp ( I Dint added)
Vanilla essence - 3 drops
Almonds - 1/2 cup
Raisins/ kishmish - 1/4 cup

Others


Salt - 1/2 cup

Butter paper - as per mould size

Instructions

1) Take a kadai/ pressure cooker spread salt  keep stand. Close the lid on Kadai ( remove whistle and gasket and close it) and preheat it on medium flames. 



2) Keep mould on the butter paper and cut it as per requirement. Apply oil all sides of mould and place butter paper in it. Also apply oil on butter paper and keep it ready. 



3) Grate carrot, chop almonds finely and cut raisins in two halves(optional)  and keep it aside. 


4) Take a wide bowl add 1/2 glass of  milk in it. 



5) Add powdered sugar to the above. 



6) Now add oil to the above. 



7) Beat the above with spatulla/ electronic blender/ hand blender, so that everything mix well. 



8)  Now add wheat flour to the above by using strainer as shown below. 





9) Now  strain baking soda and baking powder in the above bowl. 



10) Mix the above all well without any lumps by adding some milk. 





11) Then add vanilla few drop to the above and mix it well. 



12) Add the above well and add grated carrot, half part of chopped almonds and raisins to it. 


13) Mix everything well, batter will become very thick now add remaining milk.



14) Mix the above well with out any lumps, batter should not be too thick or too thin. 



15) It's time to add the above batter into cake mould. 



16) Dust some wheat flour on remaining chopped almonds and raisins (** check tips) 



17) Sprinkle the dusted almonds and raisins on the better and tap the cake mould twice. (**check tips). 



18) Close the lid and cook it on medium flames flames for 5 minutes and then cook on low flames for 30 minutes. After 30 min, insert tooth pick and check if batter sticks to tooth pic it means cake is not ready. 



19) Now cook it on low - medium flames few more minutes by closing lid. Check again, if tooth pick is clear it means that our cake is ready. 



20) Using cloth or holder remove the cake mould out and tell it cool for room temperature. Later take knife and scratch all the sides and  keep one plate on cake and reverse it as shown below. 



21) Now tap the mould all sides and demould it carefully. 



Remove the butter paper and turn the cake, our Carrot cake with lots almonds and raisin is ready to serve 😍🎂. 




Carrot cake came very fluffy, moist, spongy and delicious tasty. 



Note

* If you are okay with maida you can replace it with wheat flour. 

* Instead of sugar you can also add condensed milk or melted jaggery. 

* You can also use cashew nuts and pistachios. 

* As I mentioned my mould is not fitting in my pressure  cooker(as is its 2l pressure cooker) so I used big Kadai. 

* You can also use room temperature clarified butter instead of oil. 

Tips

** Preheat the kadai/ pressure cooker on medium minimum 15 minutes, otherwise it will take more time to prepare cake. 

** If you have electric blender then use it to mix batter. 

** Take care that there will be no lumps in batter. 

** Using Cinnamon powder or nutmeg powder  will give you good flavour and taste to cake. I will purchase it soon. 

** After pouring batter in mould tap it well so that no air bubbles will form. 

** Dust nuts while spreading on cake, so that nuts do not sink nto cake while cooking. 

** Let the cake cool to room temperature then only  demould, otherwise it will break. 

** Do not open lid many times, chances of sinking nuts into cake and we do not get fluffy cake. 

** D't be panic if Ur cake is not ready in 30 - 40 minutes, let it cook on low - medium flames till it cook. If you do not preheat Ur kadai/ pressure cooker properly you may face this problem. So d't worry 😍. 

Hope this tips is helpful to you, I shared almost all tips I know hope you like this nutty, healthy wheat flour carrot cake. Also check other related recipes by clicking the link below the pic... 


                        Rava chocolate cake 


              Baby Corn Fritters


           Rava / Semolina Pizza



         Veg Chow mein noodles



          Dry cabbage manchurian


                            Paneer Tikka


        Star Gooseberry masala


 

                   Paneer pinwheels

     Roasted Masala Chickpeas / Masala coated Kabuli Chana fry


                      Matar fry




                   Pepper sev


                      Vaamu Aaku bajji

              Homemade butter


                     Homemade Ghee

               Vaamu Aaku bajji

               Corn flakes chivda

                     Bhakarwadi

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Sunday 21 April 2019

Ragi munagakku rotte, Ragi Drumstick leaf Thalipeeth using grated carrot

Today's recipe Ragi drumstick leaf Thalipeeth using grated carrot which is very tasty and healthy. It is also known as Ragi pindi munagakku rotte in Telugu, Ragi muranga keerai adai in Tamil and Ragi nugge yele Thalipeeth in kannada. Thalipittu / Thalipeeth is famous Karnataka breakfast. It is very crispy, tasty power packed with lots of minerals, proteins. We can have it with any pickles or chutney's or simply with curd. I love to have it with hung curd 😋. We can also have it as evening snacks for kids after coming home. 



 The ingredients like drumstick leafs, grated carrot.. which we add in it are all healthy. We also add fresh grated coconut or small coconut pieces which adds good crunchy taste to thalipittu and also good for health. Adding  grated carrot is optional but to make it protein rich I add it. 


                Ragi munagaku rotte

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 20  minutes
Serves : 7
Category : Breakfast/Snacks
Recipe Cuisine: Karnataka
Main ingredients: Ragi flour, Drumstick leaves
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients 

Ragi flour -  11/2  cups
Rice flour - 4 tsp(optional)
Drumstick leaf - nearly 1 cup
Onion - 2
Carrot - 3/4 rth cup(grated)
Grated fresh coconut - 3/4 th cup
Curry and coriander leaves - 2 tsp(chopped)
Green chilli - 2 
Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Salt as per taste
Oil - as per need

Instructions

1) pluck only drumstick leaves  from stem.


2)  wash drumstick leaves and chop it into small pieces, grate coconut, cut onion, green chilli finely and keep everything ready. 



3) Boil 2 glasses of water. 



4) Take a bowl add Ragi  rice flours, salt, red chilli powder mix everything well. 



5) Now add green chilli and grated coconut to the above. 


6) Now add all the chopped items (step - 2 )into above well. 



7) Mix the above well with out adding any water at first. 



8) Add little by little boiled water and mix the above ingredients to thick, sticky smooth dough. 



9) Now take a butter paper/ foil sheet/ any thick oil cover/ banana leaf apply oil on it, and pinch some amount of dough. Keep pan to heat. 



10) Now spread rotte/ Thalipittu on it and make 3 to 4 holes with your fingure. (**check tips)



11)  Now carefully keep the above prepared rotte on pan as shown below and keep it for a second(** check tips)


12) Now remove sheet carefully, if it stickied with dough blow some air. 



13) Now add some oil in holes and around it. Cook it on low - medium flame till it cook both sides well and becomes crisp both sides. 



14) Take the above into plate and repeat the same  process. That's it tasty, crispy and healthy Ragi drumstick leaves Thalipeetu is ready to serve, enjoy with your family 😋😋.  I had this with thick hung curd. 




Tips

** You can skip adding grated carrot and coconut. 

** If drumstick leaves not available skip it, add remaining then it will become Ragi Thalipeeth 😄. 

** You can skip green chilli add only red chilli or can add green chilli paste too. 

**Do not prepare dough too thick, if you feel you dough is dry add some water and mix it. 

** If you feel your dough is too sticky then add some flour. 

** Adding rice flour is optional but it gives good crunchy taste. 

** Take care while spreading sheet on stove it may catch fire easily. 

** Apply oil to sheet/ cover everytime  while preparing thalipeeth, so that it won't stick to cover/ sheet while spreading on stove. 

** serve hot to  get good crispy taste. 

** Chew thalipeeth well otherwise you may get digestion problem. 

** Other variation is  you can fry onions, drumstick leaves, carrot in some oil and then add it in flour continue the same process. 


Also check starters and other snack recipes by clicking link below pic. 


                    Uggani bajji


        Sweet Coconut paratha


                        Idli Upma


              Baby Corn Fritters


           Rava / Semolina Pizza


     Roasted Masala Chickpeas / Masala coated Kabuli Chana fry


                      Matar fry




          Veg chow mein noodles



          Dry cabbage manchurian

                            Paneer Tikka


        Star Gooseberry masala


 


                      Paneer pinwheels

                   Pepper sev


               Vaamu Aaku bajji

               Corn flakes chivda

                     Bhakarwadi

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