Kesari

This simple desert is loved by one and all. This is a quintessential sweet in any wedding/birthdays/engagement etc. If we mention that I just got back from mappillai ayaipu (a function for welcoming the groom - the day before the wedding) to anyone …the typical question you hear is…sojji bajji saptiya (did u eat sojji and bajji)!!


I do not have a sweet tooth but this is still one of my favourites. I make this sweet all the time since preparaing time is less than half an hour. I do this mostly on pournami (New moon day).
Ingredients needed:
Rava – 1 Cup
Sugar – 1 ½ Cup
Water – 1 to 2 cups based on the texture of rava
Ghee – 1 Cup
Cardamom – 6
Raisins, Almonds and Cashew
Orange Food color
Saffron strands
Boil water and keep it aside.
Take a tsp of ghee and roast the cardamom. Cardamom smells good and gets easily powdered when roasted in ghee.
Take a tsp of ghee and roast the nuts and keep it aside. Heat a tsp of ghee and roast the rava till you get the smell. Turn off the stove and add water needed to cook the rava. If it is fine rava then less water is needed. Add the sugar and turn on the gas. Mix it well and start adding the ghee little by little.
Take the saffron strands and mix it well in milk. Add the saffron and cardamom to the kesari. Garnish it with cashew, almonds and raisins.
The yummy kesari is ready to be served.