KESARI

I have just got few minutes to relax. I am doing something or other from early morning. House was like a dustbin from yesterday night. Why????Yesterday was my hubby's birth day.

Yesterday, we had a small get to gather at home.The end of day we were tired like anything, so we dumped everything as it is, and went to sleep.

As per my in laws tradition, we prepare at least a sweet at home, on any occasion like birth day or wedding anniversary, and being a daughter in law of a traditional iyengar family I have done same since this time my in laws are not in station.. I prepared a very common traditional sweet known as Kesari in south India but in other places in India it is called as suji ka halwa.I do not know that how many of you know that there is lots of difference in between these two sweets.Soon I ll post the recipe for suji ka halwa also but for time being just have a look how I have prepared my kesari.

Kesari

Preparation time: 5 minutes (Approximately)

Cooking time: 15 minutes (Approximately)

Serving: 4-6 persons

Ingredients

Bombay rava/Suji/Semolina-2 cups

Hot Water-5 cups

Ghee-1cup

Sugar-4 cup

Eatable Orange color-1/2 tsp

Cardamom Powder-1 tsp

Cashew Nut-10-15

Raisine-15-20

Pistachi-5-10

Method

• Heat a pan and put ghee in this keeping 1 tsp ghee aside.

• Once ghee is warm add semolina in this and fry this till it turns to light pink in colour.

• Then add hot water in this and keep steering the rava simultaneously.

• Mix the orange colour in little water and put this also in semolina.

• Once water is dried up add sugar and cardamom powder in this.

• Once sugar mixed up with semolina and ghee started separating from semolina then removes it from flame.

• Now in another pan heat 1 tsp ghee and fry all dry fruits.

• Add the fried dried fruits to kesari.