Rava Kesari or Sooji ka Halwa

This is one of the easiest , fastest and tastiest sweets to make. Kesari gets it's name from the word Kesar which means Saffron.

Ingredients Required:

• Rava - 1 cup
• Sugar - 2 cups
• Water - 2 cups
• Ghee - 3/4 cup
• Cashewnuts - a few
• Saffron - a few strings (soak in a tbsp of milk)
• Raisins - a few
• Orange/Red food colour - 2 drops (mix in a tsp of milk)
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Cooking Method:

• Add 1 tbsp of ghee in a frying pan


• Add rava to the pan and roast until golden brown.


• Boil 2 cups of .


• Take a heavy bottomed pan and add water and then add roasted rava to this, all of this in medium flame stove.


• Mix constantly so that rava does not form balls.


• Add sugar to this and stir continously.


• Add food color to this after mixing in a tsp of milk.


• Add the saffron soaked in milk.


• Slowly start adding ghee little by little and stir until the mixture solidifies.


• Add cardamom powder, stir again and switch off the flame.


• Add chopped cashew nuts and raisins fried in ghee.


• Serve hot.


• If kids like it, you can even pour this on a plate and cut into their desired shapes.