Vettu Cake (Sweet fried cake). Vettu cake aka Fried Sweetened Dough is a popular tea stall snack, available only in rural Kerala. Its hard to find this snack in the urban towns. But with this recipe you can prepare vettu cake in your kitchen easily.
Beat eggs with a hand blender and add powdered sugar and mix well.
It is called vettu cake as it forms cracks (vettu in tamil) while frying.
This a heirloom recipe that my mother taught me.
You can cook Vettu Cake (Sweet fried cake) using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Vettu Cake (Sweet fried cake)
- It's 500 gm of Flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Baking soda.
- Prepare as required of Salt.
- It's 1 tsp of Cardamom powder.
- It's 3 or 4 nos of Egg.
- You need 250 gm of Sugar , powdered.
- You need of Oil for deep frying.
It is usually prepared adding eggs and using maida. I wanted to make it more healthy and hence tried the same. Vettu cakes are tea time snacks usually found at roadside tea stalls in southern India. A popular snack in Kerala, it is very similar to the ooty varki, which is also somewhat a deep fried sweetened dough served alongside tea.
Vettu Cake (Sweet fried cake) instructions
- Sift together flour, salt, baking soda and cardamom powder..
- Beat eggs with a hand blender and add powdered sugar and mix well..
- Add sifted flour and then knead very well and make a chappathi like dough..
- Cover with damp cloth and keep aside for one hour..
- Divide dough in to equal sized thick strips, cut the triangle shape and make one deep cut in the centre..
- Heat the oil in a pan and deep fry till golden brown on medium heat. Drain on paper towels and let it cool completely. You can store in air tight containers for up to 3 weeks..
The vettu cake is slightly puffier (almost cake-like), owing to the presence of. Hence its called "Vedi cake/Vettu cake". Cook till the balls turn golden color. It may be soft while you remove but it becomes hard n crispy as it cools down. Vettu cake is made with sugar, all purpose flour and eggs.
