Amaranth (Rajgira) cake with apricots & orange zest
Amaranth (Rajgira) cake with apricots & orange zest

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, amaranth (rajgira) cake with apricots & orange zest. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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According to Wikipedia Rajgira/Amaranth is known as superfood due to its proven health benefits. This is gluten free and is low on glycemic index. This being my favourite grain, I have utilised it once again for making fasting friendly recipe, Rajgira Fruit Tart

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook amaranth (rajgira) cake with apricots & orange zest using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Amaranth (Rajgira) cake with apricots & orange zest:
  1. Take Amaranth (Rajgira)
  2. Get roasted oats powder
  3. Take baking powder
  4. Take chopped cashews
  5. Get buttermilk
  6. Make ready fresh cream
  7. Take sugar
  8. Get coconut oil
  9. Prepare orange zest
  10. Make ready rose essence
  11. Make ready chopped apricots
  12. Take honey
  13. Prepare baking soda
  14. Prepare wheat flour
  15. Prepare cinnamon powder
  16. Get salt

Next time you plan to make some halwa for Raksha Bandhan, this dish can surely be done. As the name says, this halwa is made just with Amaranth Flour and sugar with loads of ghee and nuts in it. Once you add amaranth seeds in the pan, they will start popping like popcorn. Stir cook the seeds to avoid them from burning.

Instructions to make Amaranth (Rajgira) cake with apricots & orange zest:
  1. Add 100 gms Amaranth to a mixer & blend into a fine powder.
  2. In a bowl, mix together powdered Amaranth, 50 gms roasted oats powder, 4 tbsp sugar, a pinch of salt, 2 tbsp coconut oil, 1 cup buttermilk & 2 cups fresh cream.
  3. Then add orange zest, 5-6 chopped cashews, 1/2 tsp rose essence. Mix it well & remove all the lumps.
  4. In a bowl mix 4-5 chopped apricots with 2 tbsp wheat flour and let it coat nicely. This will prevent the apricot pieces from falling when we cut the cake and the apricots will stick to the cake nicely.
  5. Now add these apricots to the cake batter, add 1/2 tsp baking soda & 1 tsp baking powder and mix well.
  6. Take silicon molds of different shapes. Add batter up to 3/4th of the mold as to allow the remaining space for the cake to rise.
  7. Place the mold in pre-heated oven at 200 degrees for around 20-25 minutes. Once baked remove the cakes from the oven & molds.
  8. Mix 2 tbsp honey & pinch of cardamom powder. Glaze the cakes with this mixture. Serve.

Now, transfer the roasted amaranth seeds in a bowl and add in jaggery syrup. Amaranth flour is fibre-rich and easier to digest. Amaranth flour is fibre-rich and easier to digest. Apart from that, it is rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties - all coming together to make it the superfood it is now known as. Amaranth contains iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus.

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