Eggless Dates Honey Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup All Purpose flour
1 cup Whole Wheat flour
1 cup chopped Dates / Kharjura
1.5 - 1 3/4 cups powdered Sugar
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Cooking Soda
1/2 tsp Venilla Essence
Pinch of Salt
1/2 - 3/4 cup  melted Butter

2 - 2.5 cups Milk
1/4 cup Honey

4 tsp Chocolate Syrup

Recipe:
Remove the seeds from dates and chop them into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below.

Put 1 cup of hot milk and keep it aside for about 20-30 mins.

Crush them in a mixer as shown in the picture below. Add half of the honey and mix well.

Put sugar in a mixer, grind it to very fine powder. Sieve the all purpose flour, wheat flour, powdered sugar, salt, baking powder, cooking soda as shown in the picture below.

Mix them well, add melted butter, venilla essence, required amount of milk and mix them well. The consistency of the batter should be as shown in the picture below.

Apply little ghee or flour to microwave safe pan, and pour this in a pan.

Preheat the oven at 180C in Convection mode and bake this for around 30-40 mins. (Put the knife/tooth pick and make sure that the cake does not stick to it. If it sticks, still bake it for few more mins.)

Remove the pan from microwave and pour the honey and chocolate syrup on top of it as shown in the picture below.

Keep this aside for few mins and allow it to cool. Put it in an airtight container and refrigerate for longer shelf life.

Heerekayi Sippe (Ridge Gourd Skin) Tambli

Ingredients:
1.5 cups chopped Tender Ridge Gourd skin / Heerekayi Sippe
1.5 cups grated Coconut
1 - 2 Green Chillies
4 - 5 black pepper
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds (1/4 for Masala + 1/4 for Seasoning)
1.5 - 2 cups fresh Buttermilk
2 tsp Ghee
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
8 - 10 seeds of Fenugreek leaves
Salt to taste
1 strand of Curry leaves
1 - 2 broken Red Chillies

Recipe:
Chop the ridge gourd skin into small pieces as shown in the picture below. Cut the green chillies into small pieces.

Put 1.5 tsp ghee, 1/4 tsp cumin seeds, black pepper in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Once it turns golden in colour, add chopped green chillies, chopped ridge gourd skin and fry them for about 2 mins in medium flame. Add salt, little amount of water and cook them well.

Grind grated coconut, cooked ridge gourd skin into smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water. (If it is frozen coconut, use hot water while grinding.) 

Add this ground coconut to a vessel. Add buttermilk, required amount of salt, water to the same vessel and mix them well. (If it is yogurt/curd, put it in a mixer for few seconds before adding it to Tambli.)

Put mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chilly pieces and 1/2 tsp ghee in a pan. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and add it to Tambli. Mix well before serving. It goes well with Rice.