Recipe: Perfect Dates Semolina Steamed Cake

Dates Semolina Steamed Cake.

You can cook Dates Semolina Steamed Cake using 8 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Dates Semolina Steamed Cake

1. It's 3/4 cup of Fine Semolina (Rawa/Sooji).
2. You need 1/2 cup of Milk.
3. Prepare 30 of Seedless Dates.
4. It's 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of Cardamom Powder.
6. You need 3/4 tsp of Baking Powder.
7. You need 2 tbs of Raisins.
8. Prepare 1 pinch of Salt.

Dates Semolina Steamed Cake instructions

1. To make Dates Semolina Steamed Cake, first soak the dates in sufficient clean water for about half an hour..
2. Soak the semolina as well in the milk for about 15 minutes..
3. Grind the soaked dates to a smooth paste using little of the soaked water, if required and add it to the semolina..
4. Give it a good mix. The mixture should be of medium thick consistency..
5. Add to it the raisins, vanilla essence and cardamom powder and give it a good mix..
6. Add the baking powder and mix..
7. Grease a deep colander or a baking tray and pour the above mixture into it..
8. Spread it evenly..
9. Add water in a pressure cooker at the base and place a stand in it..
10. Place the colander, uncovered on the stand, such that it doesn’t touch the water at the bottom of the cooker..
11. Close the lid of the cooker without the whistle..
12. Steam for 2 minutes on medium flame and then for about 15 minutes on low heat or till a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean..
13. Switch off the flame and extract the colander from the cooker..
14. After a while, loosen out the edges with a knife and upturn the cake on a plate..
15. Roast a few cashews in ghee. Decorate on top of the cake alongwith some real diced dried fruits!.