Rava Kesari recipe

Ingredients:

Rava - 1 cup

Sugar - 2 cups

Water - 3 cups

Cardomom powder - 1 tsp

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Cashew nuts - 8 cut in to pieces

Raisins - 10

Food colour ( Orange ) - 1 pinch

Method:

• In a vessel boil 3 cups of water.

• In a heavy bottomed pan, heat 1 tbsp ghee and roast cashew nuts and raisins. Remove and keep aside.

• In the same pan, add another tbsp of ghee and roast rava till it becomes golden brown. After roasted,  add the boiling water which we got from step 1 little by little. Take care no lumps are formed.

• Keep the flame low and keep stirring till it cooks well.

• After it cooks well, add sugar and mix well.

• Take 1 pinch of food colour in a cup and add 2 tsp of milk. Mix well and pour it in the rava mixture.

• Mix well till it doesn't stick on to the vessel. If needed add some ghee. ( when it comes with the spatula when you stir with out sticking, turn off the flame ).

• Add cardamom powder and cashews and raisins to it.

• Rava kesari is now ready to serve.

Note:

Add sugar only after rava cooks well. Later it'll not cook.