Oats Apple Gateau

💪Loaded with fresh grated apples 🍎 this gateau or Apple Cake is just uff uff!! 😺😻

I was shooting for the recipe video of this cake, but believe me!! I couldn't stop or wait for the cake to cool👿, I simply dived in. The aroma while it was baking was such that nobody could🤷‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️

My son was playing outside 🙆and he came inside running🏃‍♂️, mama bangaya kya cake,,, han han?? My friends 🤼‍♂️can smell it from far away, they also want it😬🤤 

🛎Just a simple cake with loads of fruit 😋 no rocket science 👩‍🚀🚀

This is a combination of all the wholesome ingredients you can think of, just whipped up jaggery with homemade curd, some 🌻oil and mixed with 🌾Oats and whole wheat flour and added lots and lots of grates of the red shining juicy fruit,, because I don't want to give 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️Doctors more business, anyways they are quite busy keeping pandemic away🐸

RECIPE

Serves: Atleast 8 hungry mouths

Prep time: to cool ingredients taken out from fridge

Bake time: 30 minutes 

Tools: Oven, 6 inch bake tin, grater

INGREDIENTS 

1. Apples 2 medium sized

2.  Oats flour 1/2 cup + 2 tsp for garnish

3. Wheat flour 1 cup + 2 tsp for dusting pan

4. Baking soda 1/2 tsp

5. Baking powder 1 1/2 tsp 

6. Cinnamon powder 1 1/2 tsp

7. Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

8. Salt 1/4 tsp 

9. Curd 1/2 cup 

10. Jaggery 3/4 cup

11. Oil 1/2 cup

12. Walnuts 2 tbsp for garnish 

13. Lime juice 1 tsp

METHOD

1. Wash and wipe the apples thoroughly. Chop walnuts roughly and keep aside.

2. Sift all dry ingredients i.e. wheat flour, baking powder and soda, salt, cinnamon and cardamom powder all together in a mixing bowl. Add oats and combine.

3. In another bowl make wet mixture, first mix curd with jaggery. Let jaggery dissolve in the curd.

4. Add oil and whisk well.

5. Pour the liquid to flour and fold the ingredients to make a very thick batter.

6. Grate apples with skin and sprinkle lemon juice, so that it doesn't turn brown.

7. Preheat oven at 180°C. Grease a cake, dust and coat it with wheat flour.

8. Add the apple grates to batter. Only fold and not mix vigorously. Please refer to video link to see how I did this step.

9. Add to the the cake pan. Flatten by pressing gently. Put inside the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Or until skewer inserted in center comes out clean.

10. Remove and keep to cool on a stand.

11. Use a dish and invert the cake. Watch the video link here to see how I did this step silly me

12. Cool it and then cut it, so you will get clean slice....not like mine🤦‍♀️, I cut when it was hot-warm🙈.

13. Serve as dessert or breakfast 😋 or enjoy anytime of day.