Dhondas (Cucumber Cake)

Dhondas is one of my moms specialities. It is made from large cucumbers. It made for a healthy evening snack and is also my dads favorites.

Ingredients

1-2 Large Juicy cucumber

Jaggery

Salt

Turmeric

Roasted Peanuts

Coconut scrapping

Roasted Soji

1) Peel the cucumber and shred thinly.

2) Put it in a Kadhai to cook (Cucumber water and all). Put 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp salt, and jaggery as per taste. Let the batter thicken a little and the jaggery melt. Put in 1/4 cup coconut scrapping and the roasted peanuts.

3) Put in soji, just enuf to make it into a thick paste but not very dry. Remove from gas. (Make sure that the before putting the soji the batter is little on the sweeter side as after putting in the soji some of the sweetness disappears). Add little ghee to add flavour

4) Put the batter now in a greased vessel and put it in oven to cook. Cook for 15 minutes.

5) Remove and once little cooled put it on a tawa on low flame. Cover the cake and roast it on both sides applying little ghee...