Pista Cake

Name: Pista Cake
Total time: 4500 s
Yield: as required
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup aata (wheat flour); 1/2 cup coresely grinded sugar; 1/2 cup beaten yoghurt; 1/4 cup ghee/butter; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 drops green food colour; 2 tbsp chopped pistachios; 1/2 cup milk; 1/2 tsp pistachios essence; as needed chopped pistachios for garnishing; 4 tsp dry rose petals

Sudeshna Rajib Das @cook_85882015

New Delhi

One of my favourite cake. You can prepare it and make it your favourite too..

Sudeshna Rajib Das @cook_85882015

New Delhi

One of my favourite cake. You can prepare it and make it your favourite too..

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Ingredients

1 hr. 15 mins.

as required

1 cupaata (wheat flour)
1/2 cupcoresely grinded sugar
1/2 cupbeaten yoghurt
1/4 cupghee/butter
1/2 tspbaking soda
1 tspbaking powder
2 dropsgreen food colour
2 tbspchopped pistachios
1/2 cupmilk
1/2 tsppistachios essence
as neededchopped pistachios for garnishing
4 tspdry rose petals

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Steps

1 hr. 15 mins.

1

In a cup take half cup of milk & add few drops of green food colour. Mix it and keep it aside.
2

Now take a large bowl add add sugar, yoghurt, ghee. Whisk together everything well.
3

Now keep a strainer over the bowl and add aata, baking powder, baking soda. Strain them and mix everything well, by adding milk little by little.
4

Donot add the milk at a time. Now add chopped pistachios and again mix everything well. Now add pista essence to it. Mix everything well.
5

Now for pre-heating, take a kadai with it's base covered with salt and a stand over it. Cover it and pre-heat the kadai for 3 mins on high flame and then 7 to 8 mins. on medium flame.
6

Till the time, it gets pre-heated, grease a cake tin with some oil & sprinkle some maida over it. Dust the excess maida. Now pour the batter into the cake tin. Sprinkle some chopped pistachios and some dried rose petals over it.
7

After 7 mins open the lid and place the cake tin over the stand. Cover the lid immediately and bake it on a low flame for about 35 to 40 mins. Your cake is now ready. Check it with a toothpick. If it comes out clean, then it's done. Demould it only after it cools down completely. Cut them into pieces and serve them.