Sweet Rava Kesari

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Rava (cream of wheat)
• 1 cup Sugar
• 10 Cashew nuts (broken into halves)
• 10 Raisins
• ½ cup Milk
• ½ tsp Cardamom powder/3 cardamom crushed
• 2 tbs Ghee
• Pinch of Orange food colour (kesari powder) optional
• Pinch of Salt

Preparation:

• In a wide bottomed pan, heat the ghee, add cashew, raisins and fry it.
• When the raisins balloons up/swells add the rava and roast it till the rava turns light brown colour.
• Now add the sugar, cardamom powder and mix it well to avoid lumps.
• Add 4 cups of water, milk, food colour (dissolved in little water), pinch of salt and stir it constantly in reduced heat.
• When the rava is fully cooked and separates from the pan, turn of the flame and cover it with lid.
• After 10 minutes add little ghee to the kesari and mix it.
• Sweet Kesari is ready.