Kesari – Restaurant style

Keasri is a very simple sweet recipe which everyone use to prepare at home for function, unexpected guest etc. At time the recipe will be flop or won’t get good taste due to some mistakes we use to make. Here I give you the procedure to prepare the recipe with hotel taste.

Preparation time: 5mins

Cook time: 20mins

Total time: 25mins

Serves: 3

Cuisine: Indian

Type: Dessert

Author: Nivi Marshal

Ingredients:

Rava – 1 cup

Sugar – ¾ cup

Ghee – ¼ cup

Cardamom – ¼ tsp (powdered)

Turmeric powder – a pinch

Water – 2 ½ cup

*1cup=120ml

Kesari

How to prepare Kesari:

• In a kadai add a tbsp of ghee and roast the cashenut till it changes the colour. Transfer the cashewnut to a plate and keep aside. In the ghee add the rava and roast till it starts to change colour and gets aroma.
• In another pan add water along with cardamom powder and boil. Heat a little amount of ghee and add the turmeric powder in it to get rid of turmeric flavour. Now add this to water, once the water starts to boil add the roasted rava in it. Cook till the rava absorbs all water and become thick.
• At this point add the sugar to the rava and cook till it melts and combine together. The kesari will starts to leave the pan. Finally add the remaining ghee and fried cashewnut and mix it well. Close the pan with lid and cook for 2 mins. The final consistency of kesari should be soft and non sticky to hands. The kesari is ready to serve.

Tips:

• Here I skipped food colour due to its future side effects, instead of which I used turmeric powder that will be easily available at home. You can also used saffron strands soak in hot water for 10mins and add this to boiling water to prepare kesari.  Else you can use beetroot juice or beet powder, if not completely skip the color in kesari.