Rava Kesari or Sooji Halwa

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.