Total cooking time | 40 minutes |
Level | Easy |
Number of servings | 4 |
Rava Kesari is a popular and delicious South Indian sweet made from rava or semolina. This is actually semolina pudding. It is served as breakfast in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The word Kesari means orange color. The orange color is formed by adding saffron or orange food color. Instead of going with artificial food color, you can choose natural color agents. This dish is a mouth melting dessert. Rava Kesari is used as dessert in functions. It is also used during pooja’s. Now let us move to the recipe part. I had also shared some tips to be noted while making Rava kesari at the end of the recipe.
Ingredients
Rava/Semolina – 1 cup
Ghee – 3/4 cup
Water – 3.5 cups
Cashew and Raisins – as per your wish
Sugar – 1 cup
Orange food color- optional
Method of preparation
Heat 1 teaspoon ghee in a kadai
Roast raisins and cashew nut in the ghee
Transfer the roasted raisins and cashew nut to a plate
Now roast the rava in that ghee in low flame till the aroma of the rava comes out
Transfer the roasted rava to another plate
Add 3.5 cups of water to the kadai and boil
Add 1/4 cup of ghee to the boiling water
Add roasted rava to it
Mix well till the water gets absorbed. Make sure that no lumps are formed
Add 1 cup of sugar to it
Stir well and make sure that the sugar dissolves completely
Add the remaining half cup of ghee to it
Stir continuously so that no lumps are formed
Simmer it for 2 minutes by closing the lid
You can see that the kesari is getting detached from the pan.It means that our kesari is almost ready
Mix cashew nut and raisins with it
Our rava kesari is ready to serve
Tips to be noted :
While roasting rava, make sure that the color of the rava does not changes
Add Rava only after the water gets completely boiled
Add sugar only after the roasted rava gets completely cooked in water
Follow the correct measurement of ingredients
If you are using food color, add it to the boiling water.