Recipe: At Home Tavsali- goan cucumber cake

Recipe: At Home Tavsali- goan cucumber cake Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tavsali- goan cucumber cake. Tavsali is an eggless steamed cucumber cake from Goa. Tavsali is made with a handful of ingredients in a steamer. It has the delicate taste of cucumbers and is mildly sweet from the jaggery.

It is a traditional Goan recipe and is quite easy to prepare.

It gets its name from the konkani word Tavshe which means cucumber.

Goan cucumber cake or Tavasali is a healthy and nutritious snack.

You can have Tavsali- goan cucumber cake using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tavsali- goan cucumber cake

1. It’s of semolina.

2. Prepare of grated cucumber then water removed.

3. You need of cucumber water.

4. Prepare of grated fresh coconut.

5. You need of jaggery.

6. It’s of Nutmeg and cardamom powder.

7. Prepare of ghee.

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You can bake this eggless cucumber cake in oven or steam it using double boiler method.

My mom steams this tavasali using double boiler method.

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.

Tavsali- goan cucumber cake instructions

1. Keep ready first all ingredients..

2. Heat a pan with ghee, add semolina and dry roast the semolina untill golden brown using low flame..

3. Then add rest of all ingredients and cook and stir continuously untill it comes out from pan. Using low flame all over cooking..

4. Now divide three portion that mixture..add green colour in one part, other part mix with saffron colour and other portion keep as it is…

5. Put in the oil greased plate that mixture one by one and put on steamer..keep steamed for 20 mins or untill a toothpick comes out clean..

6. Served hot..

Generally we use yellow cucumber, but the recipe can be even Made with regular cucumber or the long dark green cucumbers. apart from cucumber, sooji/rava (semolina .

Cucumber in konkani is called "taushe" with the cake referred to as "tavsali".

The batter for the cake consists of grated cucumbers, rice or semolina (rava), coconut, jaggery, cashewnuts and cardamom powder.

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