TM CC-8 speech: "Eating Sugar, No Baba!!!"

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"Eating Sugar, No Baba!!!"

How many of you have a sweet tooth and love your desserts? How many of you like cakes? Ahhh…what are these cakes mostly made of? All the unhealthy ingredients! Sugar, white-refined flour, (maida), butter and eggs.

 You know my cousin Manish is overweight.  He loves his desserts, especially he has a weakness for cakes and pastries. People used to tell him not to eat fat, but soon we realized became clear that sugar that was the bigger problem. Today added sugar is one of the key staples in the modern diet, from sweetened cereals to soups to sauces. On an average we consume more than 700g of sugar a week. This causes a lot more damage than we realize.

The doctor was after him to cut out on white sugar, fats, and also eggs. So Manish finally decided to follow the doctor’s recommendation as a New Year resolution in 2013. For him that meant that meant a lot of foods, drinks, and desserts were banned, especially his favourite cakes!

Not having sweets was so difficult that he started to suffer withdrawal symptoms, in the form of headaches, mild anxiety and irritation. His newly wed wife called me and said “Didi, he is most frustrated that he can’t have any cakes and pastries. What shall I do?” So I approached Google Dev baba and with the help of the famous google search magic, I baked a cake for Tushar with no Maida, no Eggs, no Sugar and no Butter!!!! And Voila! Manish could have healthy cakes that he loved.

Can you actually bake a cake without maida, eggs, butter or sugar? Really? A lot of people asked me! So today I’ve decided to share the secret! My secret is that I used a recipe with some healthy substitutes like jaggery, whole-wheat flour, olive oil and curds as the main ingredients.

Grains, especially whole grains like wheat, are an essential part of a healthy diet and good sources of complex carbohydrates and contain some important vitamins and minerals. Grains are also naturally low in fat and high in fibre.

Jaggery is more like a healthy carbohydrate, is rich in iron, has lots of antioxidants and also has selenium. It cools your stomach, relaxes you, and has less calories than sugar. Curds, we all know is an excellent source of calcium and helps improve digestion. And of course, olive oil contains monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), which are a healthy form of dietary fat.

So here’s the recipe:

NESTLÉ Slim Dahi- 1 cup (150g)   

Water- 1/2 cup      

Oil-2/3 cup (100g)        

Wheat flour (Atta) -2 cups (200g)    

Cocoa powder – 4-5 tsp, per taste

Baking Soda - 1 ½ tsp  

Baking powder - ½ tsp 

Jaggery, grated or powdered - 2 cups (200g)      

Chopped walnuts and soaked resins – as required       

Method               

1.       Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease and flour an 8X8 inch cake tin.

2.       In a bowl, mix together NESTLÉ Slim Dahi, water and oil. Beat well with a beater or whisk till it’s frothy.

3.       Sieve the atta, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder together. Add jaggery to this & mix well.

4.       Add the dahi mixture into the flour mixture and blend well. Add the chopped walnuts and resins and mix well.

5.       Pour into cake tin and bake for 40-45 minutes, till toothpick inserted comes out clean.

6.       Cool for 5 minutes, remove the cake tin. Slice and serve.