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Baked Cucumber Cake aka Thekkare Adde is a traditional pudding with a cake like crusted top made with cucumbers, rice, coconut and jaggery.It is an authentic dish of Mangalore, a coastal city in South India. An eggless, gluten, soy and dairy free healthy dish, mildly flavored with cardamom and garnished with cashew nuts, this dish carries the essence of the land.
Cardamom is a spice made from the seed pods of various plants in the ginger family.In Indian and Middle Eastern cooking, you will find cardamom being used as a spice in most of the recipes. While Indian cooking involves more of the whole cardamom pods in their rice dishes and curries, occasionally using powdered cardamom in our sweet dishes, Middle Eastern cooking leans more towards ground cardamom in their desserts.