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After making a delicious tigernut horchata or chufa horchata (original spanish name), you can recycle the pulp in a special tigernut or chufa cake. Here you have a nice recipe of our Spanish friend Virginia Contreras.
Ingredients:
- 100 grams of tigernut pulp or grinded tigernut.
- 3 eggs from happy chickens.
- 170 grams of flour
- 1 veggie yogurt (soya yogurt recipe link)
- 50 grams of organic sunflower seed oil.
- 1 sachet of organic yeast
- 1 pinch of salt
- 150 gr. of organic cane sugar
- ½ lemon peel
Preparation
1- Preheat the oven to 180 ºC
1st Method using grinded tiger nut: Grate the lemon peel and grind the tiger nut after soaking it for 24 hours.
2nd Method using the pulp: If you make the recipe with the remaining pulp it´s not necessary to grind it. You have to grate the lemon peel and add it to the pulp and store it.
3- Beat the eggs and sugar. Take the eggs out of the fridge at least for one hour before beating. Room temperature eggs make the cake´s texture more spongy.
4- Add the flour, salt, yeast, yogurt and sunflower seed oil. Blend the mixture with the handblender for no more than 12 seconds using the lowest revolutions.
5- Finally add the tigernut with the grated lemon peel and mix with a wooden spoon or manual blender (not electric).
6- Cover a try with oven paper or sunflower oil and flour to avoid sticking. Place the mixture and sprinkle on cane sugar, cinnamon or vanilla flavoured sugar
7- Bake at 180ºC for 30 minutes.
Thanks Virgi for your recipe. Now we can enjoy the taste of the tigernut in the cake.
It´s really nice !!
Tigernut Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe in this link.
There is no such thing as happy chicken kept for egg production…
I know some close to my house…
I need to make this using a gluten-free flour. Can I simply substitute with Buckwheat flour, or coconut flour, etc.?
Thanks!!!
Hi Toni, I´ve not tried with gluten-free flour, I´m sorry, but I encourage you to try it!! If the result is positive, please share it with us!!
Have a nice day and sorry cause my little english.
How much is “1 yogurt”, 150 grams? Thank you!
Hi Yvonne, yes, 150 g of yogurt is enough. Enjoy!
Sorry, one more question: do you use fresh yeast (42 grams) or dried yeast?
In this case we used dried yeast. Have a nice day! Maybe you would like this section with some more recipes about how to recycle tigernut milk pulp https://www.plantmilk.org/pulp/ . Have a nice day!
Dear Virginia,
How much veggie yoghurt is required for your tiger nut horchata (chufa horchata) cake recipe, using 100grams of tigernut pulp. (The recipe does not give the amount.)
Thank you and kindest regards,
Mrs Margit Reeves
Sorry, 150 gr. of organic cane sugar