Rava Cake in Pressure Cooker-Sooji Cake-Semolina Cake in Pressure Cooker

Preparation time-45 minutes
Serving-8

Ingredients:

• Super fine semolina (suji/rava): 1.5 cup
• Ghee/Butter/oil : 1/3 cup
• Curd/yogurt : 1/2 cup (whisked)
• Milk :3/4 cup
• Sugar (normal/grounded) : 1 cup
• Baking powder: 1/2 tsp
• Baking soda : 1/3 tsp
• Cardamom powder : 1/3 tsp
• Mixed dry fruits: 1/3 cup
• Tutti frutti : 2 tbsp (optional)
• Salt : 2 pinch

Method:

• Add salt, cardamom powder and sugar in the semolina, mix it properly.
• If you are not using grounded sugar then whisk it with yoghurt before adding it to the semolina.
• Add ghee, yoghurt and  milk, mix it well and make a thick batter (Make sure there are no lumps in the batter).
• Cover the batter and leave it for 15 minutes.
• Heat 2 glass of water in a pressure cooker pan(bottom), let it come to boil.
• In the meanwhile, grease the aluminium cake tin with ghee/butter.
• After 15 minutes, add 1/2 of the dry fruits and tutti frutti to the batter and whisk it.
• Add baking powder and baking soda in the batter,  whisk it for 1/2 minute.
• Sprinkle some dry fruits and tutti frutti on the base of cake tin.
• Gently pour the batter into the cake tin and shake the cake tin to make the batter level even.
• Sprinkle remaining dry fruit and tutti frutti on the top of cake.
• Put a stand in the pressure cooker, make sure that water level is below top of the stand.
• Gently place the cake tin on the stand inside the pressure cooker.
• Close the lid (without whistle and rubber) and cook it for 20 minutes on low flame.
• After 20 minutes, open the lid and check the cake with toothpick/fork/knife.
• Increase the flame to medium and cook it for 5 minute (close the lid).
• After 5 minutes, open the lid and check the dryness of cake.
• Increase the flame to medium-high and cook it for a minute without putting the lid.
• Turn off the flame and allow the cake tin to cool down.
• Take out the cake tin from the pressure cooker carefully.
• Gently cut the edges of the cake with knife, place a plate on top of the cake and flip it.
• Decorate with almonds and serve.