Recipe: Appetizing Black Gram Cake

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Black Gram Cake. Healthy Breakfast Steamed Cake with Black Gram Roast - Kerala's delicacy rice flour puttu with kalada Thengakothu roast. A balanced healthy breakfast , so popular in Kerala ,cooked often in all Keralite kitchens. Steamed Cake or Puttu can be made with different flours - rice , wheat, ragi, corn, oats and so on…..

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You can cook Black Gram Cake using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Black Gram Cake

1. It’s 1.5 cup of uncooked rice.

2. Prepare 1 cup of urad dal/ Black gram(unskinned).

3. You need 1/2 cup of grated coconut.

4. You need 1/2 cup of cottage cheese.

5. Prepare 1 tbsp of black pepper(roughly crushed).

6. You need 1 cup of sugar or jaggery.

7. You need 4 of cardamom(freshly crushed).

8. It’s 10 of cashewnuts(broken).

9. You need 10-12 of raisins.

10. It’s 2 tbsp of ghee.

11. It’s 1 tsp of baking powder.

Black gram dal aka black urad dal chutney made with coconut, karuppu ulundu in Tamil, onion, tamarind, dry red chili, and salt.

Very simple available ingredients at home.

If you have any shortage of tomatoes you can make this chutney.

Muzhu Ulundhu Dosai is made with the usual Parboiled Rice meant for Idlies and Dosais.

Black Gram Cake step by step

1. Soak rice & urad dal in separate bowl overnight.

2. In the next morning clean them thoroughly & make a fine batter..

3. Mix both the batter & add grated coconut,cottage cheese, sugar or jaggery, cashew nuts, raisins, black pepper & baking powder..

4. Properly mix all the ingredients & keep it cover for 1 hour for fermentation..

5. Preheat the pressure cooker & put the ghee & form a thin layer coating all over the inner surface.(here you can use oven also)..

6. Pour the fermented batter into the cooker & cover it with lid without the whistle..

7. Place the cooker in lower flame for about 40 to 50 mints.Then switch off the flame & wait the cooker to cool down..

8. After that carefully remove the Pitha & cut into your desire shape..

9. Enjoy the delicious Pitha..

The only difference being the Lentil used.

Black gram is exported to Japan to make black gram seed sprouts.(The green immature pods are eaten as a vegetable.

The Pods and foliage (leaves) can be used to supplement cattle feed or used as forage-pods to feed to cattle after the black seed is removed.

Black Gram Flour is used as a substitute for soap.

It makes the skin soft and smooth () Health benefits of Black gram.