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A usual lament of vegetarians, especially of the strict variety, is that they have far fewer options unlike their  carnivorous counterparts. While the non-vegetarians tuck into this, that and the other, vegetarians are left making strange noises. The problem gets worse if even eggs are a strict no-no.

HEMLATA MORO whips up an easy 5-step recipe for eggless banana cake that should answer the prayers of some vegetarians.

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Ingredients

2 cups wheat flour

2 table spoon baking powder + half tea spoon baking soda

3 tea spoon cocoa powder

1 cup sugar

Half a cup oil (any refined oil)

Half tea spoon salt

Condensed milk half a tin

3 ripe bananas of bigger variety, which can be mashed easily

A little warm milk

Half a cup of small pieces of cashewnuts

Method

1. Sift slowly the first three items i.e. flour, soda and cocoa powder 2-3 times

2. Mix the sugar and oil well with a little salt till the sugar starts melting. Add this to the sifted flour

3. Mash bananas very finely, add half a tin of condensed milk, mix well. Add this to above mixture. Add cashew pieces and stir well. Add little warm milk and blend well so that you can pour it in a bowl to be put in the microwave oven.

4. Grease bowl with oil, and dust it with flour, before pouring cake mix.

5. Put it in the Microwave oven on a rack for 8 minutes. Five minutes to cool off. Take it out and cool it well to cut it into pieces.