Ingredients:
Rava (sooji)- 1 cup
Sugar- 1 cup
water- 1/2 cups
milk- 1 1/2 cups
ghee- 3 tbsp
cashews nets- 10
cardomom powder-1/2 tsp
yellow food colour-a pinch Method:
- Heat a pan, add the ghee and rava, roast the rava for a few minutes fry in medium flame,with constant stirring until a nice aroma comes.
- Be careful not to burn the rava. (the rava will start turning golden brown).Then keep the roasted rava aside.
- In the same pan heat 2 tbsp of ghee and add cashews . Fry till golden brown and keep it aside.
- In the same pan add the water and milk to the pan and bring to boil.
- When the water and milk gets boil add the food colour and mix well. Then add fried rava to it slowly by stirring continuously.
- Take care no lumps are formed, keep in medium flame and stir well. and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until the rava gets cooked well.
- Now add the sugar and keep the flame in medium and stir well.
- Now the rava would have been almost cooked and so reduce the flame and mix well.It will take another 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle cardamom powder and mix well.Garnish with fried cashews.
- Grease a plate with ghee and spread the kesari in it and after cooling down,draw as diamonds with a knife.
- Now rava kesari is ready to serve.
