Rava Kesari is a sweet Indian food that is common throughout the country. The classic ingredient used for its preparation are semolina/Rava. It can be served as a dessert with an Indian breakfast, meal, snack, or dinner.
Total Preparation time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- Fine Rava – 1/2 cup (it gives a creamy texture)
- Ghee – 2 tablespoon
- Water – 1 and 1/2 cup
- Sugar – 1/2 cup
- Cashew nut – 10
- Raisins – 5
- Salt – a pinch
- Yellow Food color – 1/2 teaspoon
Prepartion Method
- Take a Pan. Fry rava in a low flame for 1 to 2 minutes. It gives a nice aroma to the rava as well as helps to avoid lumps while cooking in water. Make sure not to burn rava while roasting .It
will ruin the taste of the sweet. - Keep the roasted rava in the dry plate.
- Medium heat another pan. Pour ghee add cashew nut, raisins and fry till it turns golden brown color.
- Then add enough water inside the same pan, add food color into the pan.
- Once the water starts boiling, reduce the flame from medium to low heat and start adding the roasted rava little by little stir this mixture with the ladle. Close it with a lid for 1 minute.
- Make sure to mix the rava without lumps and at last add sugar to these cooked rava add a pinch of salt, mix it well to enhance the sweetness.
- Garnish it with cashew nut and few saffron strands.