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Kesari (கேசரி)




This sweet dish is simple and easy to make with ingredients which are all time available. I had very less time early this morning to make some sweet on my wedding anniversary. So, I chose kesari , which took only 10 minutes to prepare.

Let's see how to prepare kesari.

Ingredients needed :

Sooji (Rava)- 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup or 1 cup
Water - 2 1/2 cups
Ghee  - 2 tbsp
Cashew nuts and raisins - 2 tbsp
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp
Yellow food colour - 3 drops (you can also choose orange colour)

In a thick bottomed pan , heat 1 tbsp ghee and first roast the nuts and raisins and  keep it separately.
Simultaneoulsy ,boil the water in a pan .

Now add the rava in the same kadai and keep roasting it in low flame, until
you get a good smell .

Then pour the boiling water into the roasted rava and keep stirring continuously
so that lumps do not form.

Once the rava is cooked, and becomes thick, add the sugar and keep stirring.
The mixture will become watery again because the sugar is melting.

Then when the mixture is getting cooked, add the cardamom powder, the remaining ghee , some of the roasted nuts and the food colour and continue mixing.

When the mixture leaves the bottom of the pan, transfer it into a plate greased
with few drops of ghee and smoothen it with a spoon dipped in ghee. Decorate
with the remaining nuts .
mmm....... yummy kesari ready !!!




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  1. துரை செல்வராஜூJuly 2, 2014 at 7:47 AM

    Very Nice!..
    Kesari - the Best!..

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