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Guilt-free Gingerbread - JFI Flour

When Santhi announced flour as the theme for JFI, I thought it would be very easy. I have a stock of flours in my pantry at all times. Mainly: Wheat flour Gram flour Rice flour Millet flour But it wasn’t easy at all deciding what to make. Chapatis, Parathas, dosas were too ‘everydayish’ for this won
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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cups whole wheat flour 1/2
  • 1/2 cup semolina (rava)
  • 3 sugar (T)
  • 3 jaggery (T) grated
  • handful dates pitted , chopped
  • handful raisins
  • 1 ginger (generous T) grated fresh root
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg grated
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1/4 tsp clove powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 3/4 cups water
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Method
 

  1. Combine the raisins, dates, sugar, salt, spices, and water in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, then remove from heat and cool completely **(This is important).
  2. Once thoroughly cool, preheat oven to 350xb0F / 175 C. Stir the flours, baking soda, and baking powder together.
  3. Add to the cooled fruit mixture and stir to mix. Spread into a 9- x 9-inch pan lined with non-stick foil bake for 30 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
  4. Makes a 9 X9 inch cake. Cut into thin slices and save in an air-tight container.

Notes

Notes:
I have always loved the taste of ginger, be in in tea, or ginger cookies or the ginger snaps. I would always wonder how ginger-bread would taste as it was something that I'd never eaten. After baking this one, I am sure, I will bake this quite frequently. Probably will go a little light on spices or focus on just one spice apart from ginger. The flavour of nutmeg was most pronounced other than the main taste of ginger. There's a load of gingery spicy taste in each bite and for the people who are not great lovers of spice-this may seem a bit of an overload on your taste-buds. But for me- I loved it and so did the hubby!.
This one ain't for the weak-hearted !.
So here goes my heartfelt entry for Santhi's JFI-Flour.
*Zero cook and bake
P.S.
When it comes to fat-free baking, I'm sure there'll be very few that can come close to this one! For Zero fats, it's a 100/100 for taste.