Vettu Cake / Fried Cake

  " Vettu Cake" is a popular snack available in Kerala tea-shops that is served along with tea (Chaaya- kada Palahaaram). It is very easy snack that can be made without much effort  and a perfect one  that can be relished with "Chai".

Ingredients

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• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 1/4 cup
• Egg -1
• Sugar - 1/2 cup 
• Turmeric Powder - 1 pinch
• Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Cardamom Powder - 1 pinch
• Water  - As required
• Oil - As Required to fry

Method

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1. Sieve flour, baking powder, salt and cardamom powder.
2. Beat egg and sugar well until the sugar dissolves completely.
3. Make well in the center of the flour mixture and pour the egg sugar mixture.
4. Kneed well adding water little by little so as to make a smooth dough and smear 1 tsp ghee at the top.
5. Cover with a cling wrap and allow to rest for at-least 30 mins.
6. After 30 mins roll the dough to a long cylindrical pipe.
7. Cut it into 11/2 inch square pieces.
8. Make a small incision vertically and horizontally to each square piece so that it cuts almost 3/4 the part o f the cake.
9. Heat oil in a kadai.
10. In medium flame , fry the cake pieces.When one side turns golden brown flip the other side.
11. Drain the fried cake pieces put them in a paper towel.
12. Serve hot with tea.

Notes

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• Make sure you make the cuts on the cake deep so that the oil gets inside and  gets cooked properly.
• Do not over fry the cake because it becomes hard.
• If cooled properly and stored in air tight container this can be store for few days.
• Fry the cake on medium flame so that it gets properly cooked inside.

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