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Westbengal · Breakfast

Baked Vegetable Cake

🟢 Veg🌾 Gluten-free📊 Medium

Traditional 56. Baked Vegetable Cake recipe

⏱️20 minPrep
🔥30 minCook
🕒50 minTotal
🍽️4Serves

🧺 Ingredients

👩‍🍳 How to make Baked Vegetable Cake

  1. Soak and grind (10 mins, high speed): Drain soaked rice and dal, grind with yogurt to smooth batter.
  2. Mix vegetables (2 mins, room temp): Add grated bottle gourd, carrots, peas, ginger-garlic paste, cumin seeds, asafoetida, turmeric, chilli powder, salt. Fold gently.
  3. Grease pan (1 min, room temp): Grease 8-inch cast iron skillet generously with ghee.
  4. Pour batter (1 min, low): Pour batter into greased pan, spread evenly.
  5. Finish cooking (10 mins, low): Continue cooking 8-10 mins on low heat until cake is golden, cooked through (test with skewer).
  6. Cool and cut (3 mins, room temp): Cool before cutting into 8 pieces.

📖 Cultural notes

Handvo is fermented grain-vegetable cake—vegetables' moisture merges with rice-lentil base, creating soft interior with crispy exterior. ---

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