Semolina Kesari Recipe

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Prep Time 15 Minutes

Cooking Time 20 Minutes

Servings 2-3

Rating

Semolina Kesari is one of the easiest sweet that you can prepare for any of the festivals. You can make semolina kesari according to the ingredients that you have. Sugar, semolina and plain water is enough even if you don’t have other ingredients. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients

1 cup(250ml)fine rava or sooji or semolina
5 to 6 tablespoonsghee
¾ to 1 cupsugar or as required
2 cupswater
2 to 3of saffron threads/kesar
4-5green cardamom pods
¼ cuphalved or chopped cashews

Directions

Step1First, start off with crushing cardamoms to make a semi fine powder and keep it aside.
Step2Once you are done with that, crush the saffron threads and keep aside.
Step3Take a kadai or pan and heat it on low flame
Step4Ghee is the first ingredient. Let the ghee heat up.
Step5Meanwhile, you can mix sugar in a bowl of water and keep it on the stove.
Step6Add powdered saffron or kesar powder in the sugar solution.
Step7Add semolina and keep stirring in the ghee once it becomes badam or any dry fruit of your choice. Stir the mixture till it turns gold.
Step8If the sugar solution starts to boil, keep in simmer and keep stirring the semolina till the time sugar dissolves entirely in water.
Step9The color of the sugar solution will change to golden. Wait for that. After that, add the sugar solution to the semolina mixture.
Step10Be very careful when you do that because the mixture may splutter.
Step11Keep on stirring until the mixture turns thick and leaves the sides of the kadai as a sign of it getting ready for you to turn off the stove.
Step12Switch off and transfer to another container.
Step13You can either add the cashews later or in the beginning itself.