Tavsali (Goan Cucumber Cake)
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Goan
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Serves: 4-5
 
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.
Ingredients
  • Cucumber (grated): 1 cup
  • Jaggery: 1 cup
  • Scraped Coconut: ¼ cup
  • Broken Wheat Dalia (Lapsi Rava): ¾ cup
  • Semolina (Rava): ¼ cup
  • Cashew nuts (broken): As required
  • Raisins: As required
  • Ghee: To grease pan
  • Salt: to taste
Instructions
  1. In a pan, dry roast the lapsi rava till slightly brown. Add semolina and dry roast till it turns slightly brown.
  2. Add cucumber and jaggery and mix well. Add little water if required to avoid sticking.
  3. Add coconut, cashew nuts, raisins and salt and mix well. Let cook till it thickens slightly stirring continuously to avoid sticking and burning.
  4. Grease a thick bottomed pan with ghee. Pour the tavsali mixture in this pan.
  5. Keep a thick bottomed tava on low flame. Place the pan with the tavsali mixture on this tava. Close lid and let cook for 20-30 minutes till completely cooked.
  6. Upturn on plate once it cools down. Cut into squares and serve.
Recipe by YourHungerStop at https://www.yourhungerstop.com/tavsali-goan-cucumber-cake/