COFFEE JAGGERY SEMOLINA CAKE

I consider this to be an easy share for today given I am pretty occupied with my visiting family these days. However, it may not be an appropriate share as it was the Bengal's rebel poet's birthday yesterday or the day before. Oh! Yes, I am a Shylock and study what people are unto and then decide my course of action.... some are exceptions.... I do not want to strike a deal with them unless they are seen closer to people who are.... ok who can never be in my "like" list? I have a blurred vision of this and I only know that I dislike that association, however people need not listen to me, its my war always. That discomfort though makes me fond of a brother like living across the continent or the "chorka buri" I have decided to keep in touch with. I still believe and will repeat time & again that these people have contributed a lot to deter a family member going wrong and eventually that makes me nothing but happy. In such a scenario, I will not think of my personal interest much, specially when I see someone at home greeting my own with so much of warmth. I remember a phone call few years back, an unhappy person trying to frustrate me without any instigation from my side, no wonder it was coming from a person who was always rude. I was told that the person on the other side of the phone was just the perfect match for one so and so. Because this so and so's family did not allow such an entry, I feel happy! I think catching an auto to Baguiati and then to Ultadanga, thereafter to Shobha Bazaar to catch the metro rail towards the southern part of Kolkata once or twice a year should be a ritual for me. What is surprising is to see people acting innocent in public, changing the role all of a sudden to an "acting parent" can be anything but not an innocent act. I could not stop myself from asking a trusted friend, "what is this happening.... achanak mummy ban rahi hai kisiki?" If one gets on my nerves, I pay no heed to unmask them. Since I feel  involving the kids in a nonsensical, age-old fight is wrong, I need to check my anger in public and share the recipe of this vegetarian EGGLESS COFFEE JAGGERY SEMOLINA CAKE for everyone.

I am unable to concentrate on my post, people are complaining how to stay sitting idle for a month or two in this small flat. My expression is like "Mani, in some countries parents stay for six months, in all probability they do not complain of how they are missing khol pocha gondho, goborer chora, koler jol" right from the second day. She is too active to sit all day on a couch and both her kids are lazy to the core. It feels good to be able to fry luchi for the luchi specialist of "DumDum er Epar". I also must share the picture of what the paternal grandfather has sent for our son and his father. My not so much of a friend mother-in-law has sent her grandson's favourite "Dabur er Hajmola" which he carried to his school.

Coming to the cake, I prepared it last Wednesday, a plain for my family and a bigger with pistachio & walnut for a couple friends' home. Our son loves plain cakes if mumma makes it, fancy cakes comes from outside as his mumma cannot prepare them. I will take the liberty of calling it a fortune cake, there were few pieces left for my family to have on a Sunday morning. It feels good to be able to share this COFFEE JAGGERY SEMOLINA CAKE made with everything available in our pantry at all times...... coffee, jaggery, semolina, yogurt, milk, vinegar, oil, baking powder, baking soda, a spoon full of sugar. I am unable to do much experiment with cakes, I fear wastage of ingredients. The measuring cup for this particular cake is a standard small bowl, sorry my idea of lb, ml is vague.

INGREDIENTS :

SEMOLINA : 2 BOWL FULL OF THE ABOVE SIZED
JAGGERY POWDER : 4TBSP [I USE A CHEMICAL FREE VARIETY]
COFFEE POWDER : 2TBSP
SUGAR : 1TBSP
BAKING POWDER : 1TSP
BAKING SODA : 1/4TSP
OIL : 1/2 OF THE ABOVE BOWL [I USE A BLEND OF CANOLA & SUNFLOWER]
PLAIN YOGURT : 1/3 OF THE ABOVE BOWL
FULL CREAM MILK : 1/2 OF THE ABOVE BOWL
WHITE VINEGAR : 1TBSP
LEMON ZEST : 1TBSP
CINNAMON POWDER : 1TSP

NOTE : MY BAKE IS DONE  IN A CONVECTION MODE MICROWAVE

PROCEDURE :

I took the semolina, jaggery, coffee powder, sugar  in a mixer grinder jar.

I pulsed it to mix the ingredients well. Transfer the mixture to a wide mouthed bowl.

Now we will add the baking powder and soda to the bowl and mix thoroughly. We will add the lemon zest too.

We will take the plain yogurt, oil, vinegar, milk in a blender and blend at high for a minute. 

We will pour the mixture to the semolina mixture.

Add the cinnamon powder and mix very well. 

Pour the batter to 2 aluminium foils, tap on the counter. 

I added few nuts to the one I took to a couple friends' home.

Preheat the oven to 180*C for 10 minutes and bake each cake for 25 minutes at 180*C. The time taken may vary from one oven to another.

Having it warm and fresh is the best idea but this home has to refrigerate them always.