Steam Cake & Laddu

Ingredients for Steam Cake & Laddu:

For Steam Cake:

1. Rice flour – 2 cups

2. Salt, water – As required

3. Coconut grated – 1 cup

For Laddu:

4. Ghee – 2 big spoons

5. Cashews broken – 1 big spoon

    Raisins – 1 big spoon

6. Sugar – 1.25 cups

    Milk – 1 big spoon

    Water – 1.5 cups

7. Saffron – A pinch

8. Gram flour (besan) – 1 cup

    Water – As required

9. Oil – For frying

10. Cardamom – 4, powdered

How to prepare Steam Cake & Laddu?

1. Add sufficient water and salt to the rice flour and prepare the flour for the steam cake.

2. Add ½ cup of grated coconut and mix well.

3. Prepare the steamcake by filling flour and the remaining coconut flour alternately.

4. Steam cook it and keep aside.

5. To prepare laddu, heat ghee in a pan and fry cashews and raisins.

6. Mix ingredients no: 6 to prepare the sugar solution.

7. While boiling the solution, filter off the foam that forms on its surface.

8. Add saffron to it, and keep it warm aside.

9. Add water to the gram flour and prepare a batter for laddu.

10. The batter should be slightly thick in consistency if compared with the dosa.

11. Heat oil in a pan and pour the batter through a strainer with round pores.

12. Batter falls into hot oil like beads.

13. Deep fry boondi and later immerse them fully in sugar solution.

14. Add cardamom powder, fried raisins, and cashews to boondi.

15. Make small balls when it’s slightly warm to get the perfect shape.

16. You can mix both powdered steamcake and laddu and serve them as a tasty dish.

Note: After preparing the flour for the steamcake, you can blend it once in a mixer. Your steam cake turns soft.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine February 15-28, 2018

You can read a few more delicious  steamcake recipes here. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.