( Eggless Whole wheat vettu cake)
Vettu cake is a very popular snack served in small tea stalls(chaayakkada) in Kerala. It's a deep fried sweet cake .It usually has very few ingredients and can be made very easily. The usual preparation of the cake is with all purpose flour ,white sugar and egg. Here is a new try on vettu cake with healthier ingredients.. It came out too good with crispy outside and soft inside. The taste is same as the authentic cake.
INGREDIENTS:
Wheat flour – 2 cups
Dark Brown Sugar/ normal Sugar - 1 cup (depending on how sweet you like)
Cooking soda – 1/2 tsp
Butter – 1 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Milk – 1/2 cup
Water – as required
Oil – for deep frying
METHOD:
1. Sift wheat flour to a mixing bowl. Add salt, cooking soda, sugar, cardamom powder and butter to the flour.
2. Mix everything well and add milk to it. Mix to form crumbs. You can also powder sugar before adding.
3. Then add water little by little and knead into smooth dough. The dough has to be non sticky. Add little flour if needed.
4. Keep the dough covered for 45 minutes. After resting time, roll the dough into log and cut into 2 inch square pieces.
5. Make deep cuts on four sides without fully cutting the cake.(like a small cut in X or + mark in the center with knife.)
Do the same for remaining dough.
6. Heat oil for deep frying, check the temperature by dropping small piece of dough. It has to rise to top immediately.
7. Reduce the flame and drop the pieces slowly and fry for 4-5 minutes in batches keeping in low flame. It has to turn golden brown on all sides.
8. Drain the oil using kitchen tissues. Serve warm with chai.
Note:
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Make sure that the oil is not too hot, or else the inside of the vettu cake will not be cooked and the outside will change its colour soon.
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