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Spicy Squash Cakes
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Spicy Squash Cakes are the perfect appetizers for the holiday season. These are easy to make and taste great!
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Grated squash
- 2 cups Gram flour (Besan)
- 1 tbsp Rice flour
- 1/4th tsp Baking powder
- 1-2 inch Ginger
- 4-5 Green chillies (medium sized)
- 1 tsp Yogurt (if yogurt is not available, use lemon juice)
- 1 tsp Dhania powder (coriander powder)
- 1 tsp Jeera powder
- 2 tbsp Corrainder leaves (finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp Roasted sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp Fresh grated coconut
- 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- Salt
Method
Grate the squash (kaddoo) .
Mix 2 cups of the grated squash, gram flour and rice flour in a bowl.
Grind the ginger and green chillis to a fine paste and add it to the above mixture.
Add jeera powder, dhania powder, yogurt, baking powder, salt and mix well without adding water. Set it aside for 10 minutes.
Take a bowl, smear the insides with oil and pour the above mixture into it.
Steam the above mixture in the above bowl in a pressure cooker for 10-15minutes. (Without the weight like in making idlis)
Once it is steamed, as it cools down, observe that the mixture now seems like a cake.
With a sharp knife, cut it into desired shape and size.
Now heat oil in a pan.
Place the cut pieces of the cake in the pan and shallow fry them till golden brown and crusty.
Garnish the fried pieces with roasted sesame seeds, coconut and coriander leaves.
Spicy Squash Cakes are ready to eat.
Serve hot with mint chutney or tomato ketchup.
Variation:
- Can add coarsely ground roasted peanuts for garnishing.
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monica jain
December 6, 2012 at 12:18 pmthanks for the recipe. by squash ,do you mean pumpkin? as the one we make with a loo puri or gheeaa?
samjeeta mukerjee
December 6, 2012 at 7:45 amloved ur reciepe but want to know what is this squash? can u suggest any local hindi name for this!
Cristina
December 5, 2012 at 12:21 pmI am making these tonight!!! Thanks Geeta!