Jackfruit Sooji cake

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 15-17 minutes.
• Resting batter time: 2 hours.
• Preparing batter time: 10-12 minutes.
• Baking time: 30-40 minutes.
• Total time: 69 minutes.

As a housewife, what inspires me very much that the seasonal and local produce always have best flavour. Jack fruit is one of them; It has a sweet and strong flavour; the aroma of the cake made from jack fruit is something that lingers for long after tasting this. The homemade cake is always superior and worth the efforts.

Ingredients:

• Sooji/rava: 150 gm.
• Maida:  50 gm.
• Ripe Jack fruit : 150-200 gm (with seed).
• Baking soda: 1 teaspoon
• Baking powder: 1 teaspoon
• Salt: 2 pinch
• Refined oil/ghee (clarified butter): ¾ cup
• Sugar: ¾ cup

Preparation:

1. Cut jack fruits, discard seeds, and put the pulp in to blending jar, blend it till fine paste. Keep aside.
2. Sieve Maida and baking soda, baking powder and salt together (sieve 3-4 times). Keep aside.
3. Grind sugar and make powder. Keep aside.
4. Take a baking tray, put half teaspoon of ghee, and apply ghee all around the container, sprinkle one teaspoon of Maida over it. Discard extra Maida. Keep aside.
5. Take a big mixing bowl, put Sooji and jack fruit’s pulp, and Mix it well with the help of spoon, keep aside for at least 2 hours or you can store it into refrigerator for overnight.
6. After two hrs (or overnight in refrigerator), put sugar and mix it well with the help of hand blender/food processor for 4-5 minutes. Add sieved mixture of Maida, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
7. Mix, make a smooth batter, Add Refined oil/ghee (clarified butter) and mix well, now cake batter is ready.

Method:

1. Choose the size of baking tray such that when batter is put into it, it gets half filled only, as after baking its volume gets nearly doubled.
2. Now bake it into preheated OTG at 160 degree centigrade for about 35-40 minutes. Check by inserting toothpick near the centre of the cake if it comes out clean otherwise bake further few minutes and check again.
3. Let it cool; cut the cake into pieces after cooling, ‘jackfruit Sooji cake’ is ready to serve.

Note:

1. you can bake it simply into pre heated cooker on minimum flame.
2. Let it cool for some time and transfer into serving plate.

Jackfruit Sooji cake by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.