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Savoury Semolina Cake is an easy peasy savoury cake loaded with vegetables. It is an egg-free and butter free cake. It can be a perfect tea cake or a breakfast cake or a quick evening snacks. Soft, delicious and healthier spiced cake.
Savoury Semolina Cake is a healthier spiced cake loaded with vegetables. It can be a perfect pair for your tea, a quick evening snacks or good as a breakfast. What better way to start your day with a breakfast cake which is way too healthy. A less oil and loaded with vegetables spiced cake.
Savoury semolina cake is an easy spiced cake recipe. It is prepared with semolina/ sooji or rawa, vegetables and few spice ingredients. Just use the veggies that are in season, temper the spice ingredients, mix them up into a batter and bake it to a perfect healthy spiced cake.
The cake is soft, spongy and very delicious. It is an easy peasy savoury cake recipe perfect for breakfast and snacking. This cake is an wholesome dish which is not only tasty and healthy but light and also satiates your soul.
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This semolina savoury cake is somewhat similar to the breakfast recipe of Gujarat called as ‘Handvo’. So you can consider this as a baked version of it.
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This is an egg free and butter free cake. A must try cake for those who love savoury bakes. So do try this easy, healthy and delicious cake. I am sure your family and friends would love it. And if at all you happens to try please do share your feedback in the comments below how it turned out for you.
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- Preparation Time : 20 minutes
- Baking time: 30 minutes
- Serves : 8
Ingredients :
- Semolina ( sooji) – 1 cup
- Curd / Yogurt – ¼ cup
- Baking soda – ¼ tsp
- Baking powder – ½ tsp
- A pinch of turmeric
- Chilly powder – ¼ tsp or as per taste
- Onion – 1 chopped
- Green Chilly – 1 chopped
- Red capsicum – 2 tbsp chopped
- French Beans – 3-4 chopped
- Few Coriander leaves chopped
- Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
- Poppy seeds – 2 tbsp crushed
- Black sesame seeds – ¼ tsp
- White sesame seeds – ¼ tsp
- Cumin seeds – ¼ tsp
- Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves – 3-4 chopped
- Oil – 3 tbsp
- Water – 150-180 ml
- Salt to taste
Method :
- In a mixing bowl add the curd, baking soda, mix well and keep aside for about 5 minutes.
- In the curd mixture add the semolina, baking powder, salt as per taste, water and mix well. Keep aside while you make the other ingredients ready.
- In a sauce pan heat 1 tbsp of oil.
- Add the sesame seeds, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves and let it crackle. Remove from heat and pour this over the semolina mixture.
- Now add the remaining ingredients, mix them well and make a batter.
- Preheat oven @180° C for 10 minutes. Grease a cake pan and keep aside.
- Pour the batter into the greased pan and tap the pan for couple of times.
- Bake it in the preheated oven @180° C for 30-35 minutes. A toothpick inserted should come our clean. Mine took exactly 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven, let it cool down, invert, cut and serve.
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Eggless Savoury Semolina Cake
Akum Raj Jamir
Savoury Semolina Cake is an easy peasy savoury cake loaded with vegetables. It is an egg free, butter free cake. It can be a perfect tea cake or a breakfast cake or a quick evening snacks. Soft, delicious and healthier spiced cake.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 50 minutes mins
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Indian
Servings 8
Equipment
OTG
7 inches rectangle cake tin
240 ml measuring cup set
Mixing bowl
Spatula
Ingredients
- 1 cup semolina (rawa/sooji/suji)
- ¼ cup Curd / yogurt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 small pinch turmeric powder
- ¼ teaspoon chilly powder or chilly flakes
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 small green chilly chopped
- 2 tablespoon red capsicum
- 4 french beans chopped
- few leaves coriander chopped
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 2 tablespoon poppy seeds crushed
- ¼ teaspoon white sesame seeds
- ¼ teaspoon black sesame seeds
- ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 3-4 curry leaves
- 3 tablespoon oil
- 150-180 ml water
- salt as per taste
Instructions
In a mixing bowl add the curd, baking soda, mix well and keep aside for about 5 minutes.
Preheat oven @180° C for 10 minutes. Grease a cake pan, line with parchment paper or simply dust it with flour. Keep aside
In the curd mixture add the semolina, baking powder, salt as per taste, water and mix well. Keep aside while you make the other ingredients ready.
In a sauce pan heat 1 tablespoon of oil.
Add the sesame seeds, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves and let it crackle. Remove from heat and pour this over the semolina mixture.
Now add the remaining ingredients, mix them well and make a batter.
Pour the batter into the greased pan and tap the pan for couple of times.
Bake it in the preheated oven @180° C for 30-35 mins. A toothpick inserted should come our clean. Mine took exactly 30 minutes.
Remove from oven, let it cool down, invert, cut and serve.
Keyword breakfast cake, savoury cake, semolina breakfast recipe, semolina cake
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Savoury cakes are very popular in France and usually served as an apero. I made a similar cake a while ago when I’d made an Indian meal for friends. It went down well though I did have to dial down the spices, as the French generally don’t like spicy food.
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Can this be steamed instead of baked ?
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Hi Sneha, I haven’t tried but I think you can steam it too
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To be honest I don’t know.
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Poppy seeds means?
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Hi Bhavna it is khus khus
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Hi.shld we dry fry the semolina
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Not as far as I’m aware.
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Can you let me know what is “curd” as I am from Canada and not familiar with it. This recipe sounds fabulous and would fit into our gluten free diet. Appreciate your reply.
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Yogurt
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Curd is just like yogurt. You can replace it with yogurt.
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The Gujrati dish is Handvo not Kandvo like mentioned.
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Yes Sheetal, its a typo error. corrected now. Thank you
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I think it’s type of handvo
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Can i use roasted semolina too ?
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Yes Komal you can
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Did you use fine suji or coarse suji. I am in US and we get two kinds here
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I used the one we make upma and halwa.. you can any of it, depending upon your preference..few people don’t like the coarse texture of the suji in the cake, in that case one can use the fine variety 🙂
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Thanks for this delicious and healthy recipe.
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Thank you so much for stopping by my blog, I am glad you liked it
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Thanks for this fabulous recipe. Could we make it in the microwave?
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You can bake at microwave convection mode
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Hi.shld we dry fry the semolina
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Raw or roasted, both will do
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What binds them together? Wouldn’t they crumble and fall apart without eggs or binding agent?
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No it won’t crumble
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The batter combo seems exactly as we mix for Rava idlis! good innovation to bake them instead of steaming!! 🙂
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Yeah! Also, the effort is less. Just mix and throw it in the oven and it’s done. Love the idea. I am going to try it today.
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Is the baking temperature of 180 centigrade of Fahrenheit?
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Yes.. its 180°C
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Thank you for prompt response!
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I tried and it came out good thanks for the recipe
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Very delicious! Thanks a lot. It was a bit dry….how can I make it moist?
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You can increase the yogurt like ½ cup and ¼ -½ cup oil
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