Ladvachi bhakari(cake)

  Ladvacho cake is a Goan breakfast dish prepared using laddoo, Rava, jaggery, and grated coconut.

Servings : 3 People

Cooking Time: 30 min

Author :Puja Raghuvir naik

Ingredients

1. Ladoo 1 Bundi laddoo (Big crunchy one)
2. rava idli (salmonella) 3 cup
3. cashew nuts
4. Badam chopped
5. salt to taste
6. jaggery grated 1 cup
7. grated coconut
8. 2 tsp pure ghee
9. Water as required

Method

1. Break laddoo into Small pieces or fine powder, and soak in milk or water for 4 to 5 hrs or overnight.
2. Add the soaked laddoo powder/pieces to a mixie and grind it to a smooth paste. 
3. Heat ghee in a kadhai (pan). Roast rava (semolina) till it turns light brown and it releases an aroma. (You can do without roasting rava)today's recipe I made without roasting rava.
4. Allow it to cool.
5. Now, take all the ingredients (laddoo paste, idli rava, grated coconut, jaggery, salt) in a large vessel and mix everything and water as per the thickness of the batter) Ensure you have combined all the ingredients well into a uniform mixture.
6. Grease a pressure cooker with ghee. Add the mixture and level it up.
7. Keep the pressure cooker without a whistle on the smaller burner over a low flame. Bake the cake for about 45 minutes. After 45 mins open the lid. You will see the cake has lightly browned on the sides. Now slowly pour a tablespoon of ghee along the sides of the cooker. This will brown it further. Close the lid and keep for another 15 mins.     

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1. Keep the idli cooker on low gas, and place the mixture on ghee-greased banana leaves in the container of the idli cooker. Close the lid and bake for 20 min, open the lid and check if it is cooked, again cook for 10 min if not properly baked.
2. Switch off the gas after 15 mins. Allow it to cool. Do not try to remove the cake when hot. Once cooled, slide a knife along the edges of the cooker. Keep a plate on top of the cooker and upturn it. Slice the cake and garnish it with dry fruits and grated coconut.
3. Enjoy it with tea or coffee.