Dry Fruit Kesari Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup dry fruits (chopped dates, raisins, cranberries and other nuts),
• 1/2 cup rava,
• 3 tbsp sugar,
• 2 tsp ghee,
• 1 pinch cardamom powder,
• 6 almonds,
• 1 cup water, and
• 3-4 drops food color optional (yellow, orange or red)

Method

• Stir-fry Rava with 1 tsp ghee on low flame till the smell of raw grain goes.
• Set it aside for later use.
• Sauté dry fruits for 5-10 seconds in a pan with 1 tbsp ghee on low flame
• Add water, sugar, cardamom powder and food color to them and increase heat to high flame.
• Add roasted rava to boiling water slowly and smoothen out any lumps and mix well.
• Reduce heat and keep stirring continuously till the mixture is cooked. One can know that the mixture is cooked when it starts coming off the pan easily.
• Grease a plate and pour 'kesari' into it.
• Let it cool and get set.
• Cut it into smaller pieces and garnish it with an almond.
• Kesari is now ready to be served.