
Many fans and friends have asked me to post the pressure cooker method of baking the cake. So I decided to bake a pumpkin cake today as it is a Halloween tomorrow. But my luck is bad, I did not get canned pumpkin or fresh good quality pumpkin in the market today. So I changed my mind to bake a Eggless Pistachio cardamom Cake. A very simple and yummy cake, easy to bake. I personally love the texture of the pressure cooker cake than the oven cake. The cake has come out superb soft and spongy and it tastes dainty. Now lets see the procedure to bake this cake in pressure cooker.
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Eggless Pistachio Cardamom Cake Recipe (Pressure Cooker Method) |
Preparation and Yield:
Preparation time | 10 mins |
Cooking Time | 35 mins |
Servings | 4 |
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Eggless Pistachio Cardamom Cake Recipe (Pressure Cooker Method) |
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour | 1.25 Cups** |
Cardamom Powder | 1 teaspoon |
Baking Powder | 1 teaspoon |
Sugar | ¾ cup |
Baking Soda | ¼ teaspoon |
Pistachios | ½ Cup + 1 tablespoon |
Yogurt | ⅓ Cup |
Milk | ¾ Cup |
Oil | ½ Cup |
Salt** | 2 Cup |
Green food Colour (Optional) | a Pinch |
* 1 cup = 250ml
** salt is for adding to the cooker. If you have an aluminium cooker, you don't need salt. You can heat up empty cooker itself. For other models please use salt or sand.
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Eggless Pistachio Cardamom Cake Recipe (Pressure Cooker Method) |
Method:
- Like oven, first we need to pre-heat the pressure cooker. For that we need to add 2 cups of fine salt or crystal salt to the cooker. Make sure the cooker is dry completely before adding salt. Keep a small bowl in the center of the cooker and keep the flame in medium and close the lid. We don't need to put the weight. Take a round or rectangular vessel and grease it with oil or butter and keep it ready. Also in 1 teaspoon of milk,add the green food color and kept it aside. This is optional. Just to give a light green color to the cake, I have added the food color.
- Grind the pistachios to a fine powder. Take a mixing bowl. Sieve the maida, baking powder, baking salt and cardamom powder and add it to the mixing bowl.
- Take another mixing bowl and add oil and sugar. Beat the sugar well till it is creamy. Add yogurt to the sugar mixture and mix well.
- Now slowly add the sieved flour and fold gently with the wet ingredients. Then, add the milk and make it like a batter.
- Add the green food colour mixed with milk and gently fold it. To the cake batter, add the pistachio powder and fold it gently.
- Add broken pistachios and fold it. Now our cake batter is ready.
- Pour this cake batter to the greased vessel. Gently tap it to get rid of air bubbles. Keep this inside the pressure cooker on top of the small bowl which we have already kept. Make sure the vessel is in center of the cooker and doesn't touch the bottom of the cooker. If the cake vessel touches the bottom of the cooker, the cake will get burnt.
- Close the lid and allow the cake to bake for 5 minutes in the medium flame. After 5 minutes, keep the flame low and cook the cake for 20-25 minutes. Check the cake in 20 minutes. Insert a tooth pick to check if it comes clean. Then switch off the flame. Carefully remove the baked cake and keep it aside to cool for sometime
- After the cake gets cooled for sometime, using a knife, loosen the edges. Then flip the vessel on a plate to remove the cake from the vessel and allow it to fully cool off. Finally make pie shaped or triangular pieces out of the cake.
- Our yummy cake is now ready to Serve!


















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Eggless Pistachio Cardamom Cake Recipe (Pressure Cooker Method) |