KESARI

February 03, 2010





Ohh god!!!



I have just got few minutes to relax. I was doing something or other from morning. House was like a dustbin from yesterday night. Why????



Yesterday was my daughter ?SAMRUDHI?s?? second birth day. Time flies and never stops for any one. I still remember the day February 02, 2008 when my little angel has arrived, just before one day of our wedding anniversary, in our life.





Yesterday, we had a small get to gather in KFC Bur Dubai, even though we are vegetarian, since my husband?s most of office colleges are non vegetarian. We returned home very late and were tired like anything, so we dumped everything as it is, and went to sleep.



Here is the birth day girl





As per my in laws tradition, we prepare at least one 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. 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. Since I have made kesari for her birth day, but for better understanding of my readers, I will also write down the recipe of Suji ka halwa today.



So let?s have look:-



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-3/4 cup



Sugar-1 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.