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.