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No Bake Cucumber Cake

There are some delicacies from my native which are so authentic and if we cook in the modern way it doesn't bring that original flavor. I am posting one such dish . This is called "Kendatadye" in the local language called Tulu which is common language in Mangalore. literal meaning of the word is like this Kenda means Charcol and Adye means "dish". Its basically a dish cooked in Earth Oven.

Kendatadye/Cucumber Cake Cooked in Earth Oven

Preparation Time: 10 min
Cooking Time: 1 hr 30 min
Makes: 20 pieces
Recipe Source: amma

Ingredients

1 cup white rice soaked in water
1 big cucumber cut into chunks
1 cup coconut grated
2 cups grated jaggery
salt per taste
3 medium onions chopped
1/4 cup ghee

Method

Cut the cucumber into chunks into pieces and soak the rice in water for about 4 to 5 hrs.

Grind together the jaggery, coconut grated, rice and cucumber adding water. Put it in a vessel and keep it in a warm place for about two hours to set the batter.

There is special aluminum vessel for this particular dish. Grease properly the dish. The ghee should be floating lightly over the batter. Pour in the batter.

Keep the vessel covered in the earth oven and keep the top covered with charcoal as showed above.

Cut into small pieces and Noy it when hot.

Labels: Cucumber, Dessert, Earth Oven

posted by SMN @ 1:07:00 PM,

17 Inputs:

At November 6, 2008 5:58 PM, Happy cook said...: This is a realy unique recipie. I have never had a cake with cucumber.
It looks really nice
At November 6, 2008 11:14 PM, Sagari said...: new recipe for me ,looks very good
At November 7, 2008 12:05 AM, Uma said...: Cucumber cake? Are you kidding? That too without baking? Great job. It looks fabulous and soft and ofcourse yummmy!
At November 7, 2008 1:29 AM, Priya said...: Wow this is completely new to me..looks delicious with simple ingredients, sure will try soon..
At November 7, 2008 4:24 AM, Kalai said...: What a delicious looking cake! Nice one, Sushma! :)
At November 7, 2008 6:14 AM, Mansi said...: Cucumbers??? seriously!! I'm amazed, and the cake looks so lovely! thanks for introducing me to such a beautiful and authentic recipe SMN!:)
At November 7, 2008 7:29 AM, DK said...: This is so new to me! Cucumber Cake! Wow!
At November 7, 2008 8:06 AM, LG said...: Interesting cake sushma, any idea what has to be done if we dont have earthern oven? can we bake it in cooker? Cucumber cake looks delicious.
At November 7, 2008 1:53 PM, Kitchen Flavours said...: Something new and yummylicious recipe.
At November 7, 2008 8:49 PM, Soma said...: This is something so new to me. never heard of it before.

Thanks for sharing. It looks great.
At November 7, 2008 10:00 PM, Ruchi Ruchi Adige said...: Hi Rishi,
Hey nifce entry.. even we prepare this at home.. we prepare both khara and sihi..
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At November 7, 2008 10:44 PM, sunita said...: That is a very interesting recipe :-)
At November 8, 2008 2:42 AM, Cynthia said...: Thanks for the introduction to this...
At November 8, 2008 10:25 AM, Red Chillies said...: My mother used to make cucumber cake called "tavsali". This is new to me.
Hey, btw did not know that you spoke Tulu.
At November 8, 2008 7:40 PM, sowmya said...: looks really good..amazing recipe..
At November 10, 2008 3:41 AM, Archy said...: Cake with cucumber.. amazing.. Looks so yum nice texture of the cake !!
At November 21, 2008 12:05 PM, Dibs said...: Do you have photos of the earth oven and the aluminium vessel you are referring to? Its will make a very interestung post for the Kitchen Treasure Hunt! Do participate!