Handvo (Savory Vegetable Cake) Sandwich

This is a Throwback to early July: Handvo (Savory Vegetable Cake) Sandwich, with Harissa (Moroccan pepper sauce) and Sev (crispy Indian chickpea-flour noodles). The Handvo was made from Food Fashion Party's excellent recipe. I spread some Harissa on toast, then added slices of Handvo, followed by a few sprinklings of Sev. It made a satisfying meal, with whole-milk yogurt, and sorbet (not pictured). 

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Savory Vegetable Cake - Handvo

This kind of cake is from Gujarat in India. Recipe of Food Fashion Party. These were baked in a mini-bundt cake pan. This is a quick-and-easy version, that doesn't require hours of soaking dal/legumes and rice, grinding them, and then allowing them another few hours to ferment. It uses Handvo flour, and tells you how to make your own, if necessary. It uses a combination of baking powder and baking soda to instant-ferment the batter before baking. 

As I always find Handvo to be very heavy (that's just me), after mixing the basic batter together, I covered it and let it sit on the counter to ferment a bit (not part of the recipe). I meant it to be just an hour or so, but it ended up being more like 6 hours. Between that and the baking powder/soda, the Handvo was very light, and easy for me to eat. I'm sure I'll make it again! 

I used store-bought Handvo flour, and, for veggies, canned carrots. I like these carrots because they are very convenient. I just take them out of the can, mash them up (they're already very soft), and add them to the batter. (The carrot water from the can, I use for soup or rice or whatever, because it has a lot of vitamins.)

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Breakfast to Treat a Cold 

(Tomato Rasam, Handvo, Mashed Potato, Lemon Juice)

Breakfast to Treat a Cold (L-R, counterclockwise): Tomato Rasam (South Indian soupy dish), Carrot Handvo Muffin (Gujarati Indian snack of fermented ground rice and legumes, with veggies, baked), plain mashed potato, and squirts of fresh lemon juice (for the rasam and handvo.) I sure hope this works! If not, it still tastes good and is healthy.

I had some leftover rasam (see photo from Dec 21), and handvo (see photo from Dec. 8), in the freezer; some lemons in the fridge that need to be used; and a package of Bob's Red Mill potato flakes (no artificial ingredients or preservatives) in the cupboard. The potato flakes are easy to make into instant mashed potatoes, with boiling water from the kettle, and are good for a snack or side dish when I'm not feeling well (or when I don't have energy to make something else).

Baked Vegetable Handvo 

This is from the recipe of Magic of Indian Rasoi. It uses handvo mix, which is convenient. I used mashed canned baby carrots for the veggies. (I saved the carrot water from the can, and used it in the soup whose photo I posted earlier.) I added all the tempering (mustard seeds briefly fried in oil) to the batter and mixed it in, and used baking soda rather than ENO to lighten it. 

The most difficult part was remembering the night before to mix up the batter base, to ferment for several hours overnight. After that, it was fairly simple. It turned out quite yummy! 

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Magic of Indian Rasoi YouTube, Baked Vegetable Handvo Recipe (in Hindi)