Rava / Sooji / Semolina - Kesari

Ingredients :

Rava / Sooji / Semolina - 1 cup Sugar - 1 cup Cardamon - 3 nos (crushed or powder) Cashewnuts - 20 nos Food Colour - Yellow or Orange (any) Ghee - 4 tbsp Water - 2 and 1/2 cups

Method :

First dry roast the rava / sooji in a kadhai \ pan until its colour changes to slightly brown and you can smell the aroma of rava and transfer to the plate. Roast the cashew nuts with two tablespoon of ghee. Then add the water and bring to boil. Stir in the food colour. Add  in the roasted rava slowly and stir continuously without lumps. Cook until the water observed.

Add in the sugar and cook until the sugar combined with the rava mixture. Then add two tablespoon of ghee and mix well. Finally add the cardamon, mix well and the kesari is ready to serve. To make shapes, transfer the kesari mixture on the ghee greased plate, cool little and cut into desired shapes.

Serving Suggestion : Serve hot with Crispy Butter Murukku or Rice Flour Thattai