Rava Kesari

Rawa kesari has been a favourite for me since I tried it for the first time in Chennai way long ago!!! So this dish automatically turned out to be my selection for this Diwali. I have considerably reduced the content of sugar here. But if you like your sweets real sweet, then you better dump in more sugar.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Semolina/Rava
• ¼ cup + 3 tbsp.
• 2 cups of water
• ¾ cup sugar
• A pinch of food colouring
• 3-4 cardamom pods crushed
• 6-7 cashewnut broken
• 3-5 sultanas

In a pan add water and boil it.

Grease a plate with a little bit of ghee and keep it aside. I used my cookie sheet.

In another non-stick pan, add ghee and add semolina and fry on a low flame until slightly browned. Add boiling water and mix well and cook until the rava is properly cooked through. This will take around 3-4 minutes.

Add sugar, crushed cardamom pods and food colouring and mix. The mixture will loosen a little bit. But after a while you will notice that it won’t stick to the pan. Remove from flame.

In another pan, add 3 tbsp. ghee and fry cashew nuts and sultanas. Transfer this to the mixture and mix well.

Spread the mixture to the greased plate. Let sit for about 10-15 minutes. Cut into your desired shape.