Kesari

Kesari:

 Let me start the blog with a sweet as the first item - Kesari - everyone's favorite.

Time taken for preparation: 10 minutes
Time taken for cooking: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

Rava/Suji - 1 cup water -     2.5 cups
sugar - 1.5 cups
elachi - 3 
cashew nuts - 10 pieces split to two
ghee - 3 tsp for frying suji + 3 tsp for frying cashew
food color - a pinch

Method of Preparation:

(1) on a tava, pour 3tsp of ghee and fry rava - when the color slightly changes to golden, leave it on a plate to cool.
 

(2) in a vessel, pour water, put food color, smashed elachi and boil the mixture

(3) put rava in step(1) and stir constantly to avoid getting lumps... as the content gets thicker, pour sugar and stir... do this step in low flame...

(4) switch off stove, once kesari turns out to sufficient consistency. 

(5) on a small frying pan pour 3tsp ghee and fry cashews. garnish kersari with the cashew fry.

(6) can add dry grapes or other raisins for garnishing as you like.