Easiest Way to Tips Delicious Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali

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Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali. Tavsali is an eggless, healthy Goan cucumber cake usually prepared in the steamed style. It is a traditional Goan recipe and is quite easy to prepare. It gets its name from the konkani word Tavshe which means cucumber.

It has the delicate taste of cucumbers and is mildly sweet from the jaggery.

Tavsali suits a Jain diet and can be adapted to a vegan or plant based diet by just replacing the ghee with oil.

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

You can cook Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali

  1. Prepare of cucumber grated.

  2. It’s of semolina/ Sooji.

  3. You need of Jaggery.

  4. Prepare of fresh coconut grated.

  5. Prepare of desi ghee.

  6. It’s of cardamon powder.

  7. It’s of nutmeg powder (optional).

  8. You need of Water.

  9. Prepare of salt.

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

Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali step by step

  1. Squeeze the cucumber and keep the water in a separate bowl..

  2. Heat desi ghee in a wok and roast Sooji till it is golden brown in colour. Keep the flame on low..

  3. Add squeezed cucumber, coconut, Jaggery and mix. Now take the cucumber water and add normal water to it till it is total 1 cup and add this to the wok. Keep stirring..

  4. Add cardamon and nutmeg powder, salt and cook till the mixture starts leaving sides..

  5. At this point, switch off the flame and spread the mixture in a greased container..

  6. Steam for about 15 minutes and check with a toothpick if its done. It tastes best warm!.

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

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, sooji/rava (semolina .

Tavsali is a sweet recipe from Goa which is made with cucumber, jaggery, coconut and semolina as the main ingredients.

It is basically a 'Cucumber Cake' called "Tavsali".