Today's post is on a simple eggless banana walnut cake made in pressure cooker. Lets get on to the recipe.
Ingredients:
Maida or all purpose flour - 2 cups
Wheat Flour - 1/2 cup
Ripe bananas 4 medium size
Yogurt - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Powdered Sugar 1.5 cups
Vanilla essence 2 tsp
Baking powder 1 1/2 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tbsp
Cardamom powder a pinch
Walnuts a handful
Assorted nuts of your choice (I used raisins and badam)
Butter or ghee - 3 tbsp
Preparing the Cake Batter:
1. Peel the banana and mash them thoroughly. To it add all the dry ingredients namely powdered sugar, sieved flour (both maida and wheat), baking powder and baking soda. Whisk it well.
2. Next add yogurt and whisk it well. Yogurt is the egg substitute which provides fluffiness to the Cake.
3. Add vanilla essence, ghee/butter, cardamom powder, milk and whisk them thoroughly for a couple of minutes. Please note that if you are adding butter, melt it and then add.
4. Add chopped walnuts and the assorted nuts to the above mixture and give a final whisk. The cake batter is now ready.
5. Dust the cake mould (or any vessel that you would like to use for baking) with little flour and ghee.
6. Transfer the cake batter to the cake mould or any vessel of your choice.
7. Grate some badam and sprinkle it over the top of the cake.
Method:
1. Place the empty pressure cooker on the stove.
2. Place a grill inside the cooker. If you don't have a grill, you can even use the carrot grater that you have (the taller one, not the flat one).
3. Close the lid of the pressure cooker (no need to remove the gasket).
4. Don’t put the whistle.
5. Heat it in medium flame for 5 to 6 minutes. This is equivalent to preheating the oven.
6. Place the mould on top of the grill. Close the cooker and heat in medium flame for 50 minutes to 1 hr. [For the amount of ingredients that I used, it took 50 minutes for the cake to be baked completely].
7. Open the lid and insert a toothpick and check if the cake has baked completely. No piece of cake should be stuck to the toothpick. That's when the cake is baked completely.
8. Switch off the cooker.
9. Cool the cake and then unmould them into a plate.
A yummy, soft eggless banana walnut cake is ready.
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