How to Best To Try At Home Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali

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Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali. 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 cook Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Goan Cucumber Cake Tavsali

  1. Prepare 1 cup of cucumber grated.

  2. You need 1 cup of semolina/ Sooji.

  3. Prepare 1 cup of Jaggery.

  4. It’s 1 cup of fresh coconut grated.

  5. It’s 1 tbsp of desi ghee.

  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of cardamon powder.

  7. It’s 1/2 tsp of nutmeg powder (optional).

  8. It’s as needed of Water.

  9. Prepare 1 pinch 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 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.

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!.

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.

Tavsali is a healthy, egg less, low fat (or fat free if ghee is omitted) Goan Style Cucumber Cake.

I love the beautiful green specks of grated cucumber (skin n all)distributed all over the light brown colored cake.