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Healthy Vegetarian Cake Provencal Recipe

Have you eaten a cake provencal before?
Cake provencal looks like a pound cake but it is baked with baking powder instead of yeast. Inside the cake, it contains a lot of savory ingredients - for example sauteed vegetables, olives, herbs, cheese, hams, sausages and so much more. The bread can be a dish for dinner or picnic. This cake provencal recipe is truly one of the best dessert recipes to have.

These cakes are baked like sweet cakes and instead of butter, olive oil is used in this vegetarian cake from the best dessert recipes. This recipe will be light on olive oil and a special ingredient mixed in for protein - toasted soy bean flour. It will be a vegetarian cake that can be eaten as it is, even paired with raw vegetables or salad. Not only that, it can be eaten in just any possible way. Also it can be kept refrigerated. It is something simple that taste good.


Ingredients
Vegetables mix
One small onion
Two big sweet bell peppers
Two garlic cloves
1 tablespoon of Herbes de Provence mix ( or any Italian herb mix will do)
1 Tablespoon of olive oil
Some salt and pepper
The batter:
60g toasted soy bean flour or chickpea flour
160g of all-purpose flour
One and a half tablespoon of baking powder
One tablespoon of salt
Two tablespoon of olive oil
Three large eggs
Half a cup of buttermilk or regular milk with a little vinegar added


The rest:
Four dried tomatoes, already drained and chopped roughly
70g of low fat goat cheese or feta cheese
One tablespoon of pesto from a jar

This is all the ingredients for the Cake Provencal.
First, heat up the oven in 180°C setting. Then take a parchment paper and cover the bottom of your baking pan with it. Lightly cover the parchment paper with olive oil.
Then take all the vegetables and cut them into rough pieces. After that, saute them in a pan with two tablespoons of olive oil until they become limp.

Add a dash of salt and pepper. Then add in the rest of the herbs and let it cook for a while. After that, turn off the fire and leave the vegetables to cool. They will later on be added into the cake.
While the vegetables are cooling, get a bowl and mix in the flour, baking powder and some salt. After you have mixed those, add in the olive oil, buttermilk and eggs. Beat the mixture thoroughly. While you are beating the mixture, add in small batches of the dry ingredients until all of it becomes a smooth batter. After you done that, add in the pesto, sauteed vegetables, chess and dried tomatoes into the batter and mix them up. Now you are almost done with your Cake Provencal.

After you have mixed them up properly, take out the baking pan you prepared earlier and pour the batter into it. Then put it into the oven and let it bake for about 20-25 minutes. The cake will be ready when the toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake. Then take it out and leave it to cool. If you are not planning to finish the cake, then you can keep it in the fridge for a few day as long it is hold in an air tight container.



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