I am very happy that this is my 100th post. My heartfelt thanks to all visitors, readers, fellow bloggers, friends for the encouragement, compliments and love you all have showered so far. I appreciate each and ever comment and feedback I have received. Thank you very much. Without your love and support Padhukitchen would not have come so far. So I decided to celebrate this occasion with a simple sweet dish and choose Rava Kesari.This is a quick fix sweet especially if you have unexpected guests.Today we will learn how to make Rava Kesari following this easy recipe.
Rava Kesari Recipe
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 30 mins
Serves: 6-8
Recipe Category: Dessert-Indian sweet
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Serves: 6-8
Recipe Category: Dessert-Indian sweet
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Semolina/Ravai/sooji – 1 cup
Ghee – 1 cup
Sugar – 2 cups
Water – 3 cups
Cashew nuts – 10
Raisins -10
Cardamom -3-4 powdered
Kesari Powder or Orange food color –a pinch
Method
Dry roast rava (semolina) for a few seconds till it gets slightly heated. (Do not roast more than that)
Heat a little ghee, fry cashew nuts and raisins separately and keep it aside.
Add the remaining ghee, add rava and fry for a few minutes.
Boil 3 cups of water, add a pinch of kesari powder to it. Then add the boiling water to the rava, simmer and cook.
After all the water evaporates, add sugar, mix well and cook on low flame until the kesari starts to leave the sides of the pan.
Add cardamom powder, cashew nuts, raisins and serve hot or warm.
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Kesari looks yum, love the colour…
Congrads dear. Very happy for u.May u post a 1000 over recipe. Your log is really distinctive with all those eye catching snaps and presentation. We always love each and every posting of urs. The rava kesari looks so tempting. Thanks for the lovely sweet dear.
simply perfect, delicious and mouthwatering…i love this very much..feeling like grabbing it right away 🙂
just want to grab a bowl from the screen.lovely post and congrats on ur 100th post.
nice pictures
Hi Padhu, congrats on your 100th post. Wish to read more posts as days pass by. So much sweetness shared with this post
I am drooling at the sight of this sweet.Looks so delicious and scrumpticious.Beautiful presentation nad clicks .
Congrats Padhu..yummy kesari..
Congrats dear on your 100th post. I love coming here…. Because of your unique presentation with veggies. I love this simple yet tasty dish 'Rava Kasari'. Looks tempting dear
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Congrads to your 100th post. This Kesari is lovely and wish I can try some ;))
congrats!! lovely sweet…
Looks yummy!…easy and fuss free!
Yumm ,my fav………..looks tempting
congrats on your 100th post! Yummy sweets and yum presentation…
Thanks for stopping by. Congrats on your 100th post. The kesari looks yumm 🙂 I have kesari recipe in my blog as well… I hope you may like to see that as well :)Cheers!
I love Kesari with Pineapple, so yum. Great looking dessert Padhu.
A Big Congrats Padhu…Great dish to celebrate the occasion..Love it…
Love
Kairali sisters
Congrats on 100th post…..sweets look inviting….
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love you blog and will be stopping by often to check and see what delicious recipes you are posting!
Congrats on your 100th post … Keep posting more and more recipes …Yummy kesari …very tempting ….
Congrats dear..Kesari looks so delicious and lovely clicks.
Congrats. Beautiful and yummy looking kesari. Nice presentation.
Looks yummy…love the pics..
Congrats on your century dear, this is my favorite sweet and so beautifully presented.
Congrats Padu on your 100th post. Yummy rava kesari.
Congrats on your 100th post… wishing you many more 🙂 Kesari looks lovely!
தங்களுடைய 100வது பதிவுக்கு வாழ்த்துகள்…தங்களுடைய பதிவுகளில் presentation எப்பொழுதும் அருமை…
Congratulations on your 100th post.Always love the way you present your food.My kids love to see your presentation.Nice and delicious kesari sweet.Wish to see many more 100's of posts from you.
Congrats on your 100th post, Padhu!! Rava kesari looks really tempting..
Congratulations on your 100th post. Great recipe that looks delicious!
Looks yummilious, awesome.
Congratulations on your 100th post!!!
Congrats on ur century! Kesari looks wonderful!
congrats on 100! rava kesari is a perfect way to celebrate this sweet event 🙂
padhu congrats dear..widh to see u with 100k post quite soon.All my best wishes..The rava kesari looks so delicious nice treat for this lovely occasion..good one
congrats dear… and you have posted simple, delicious sweet dish to celebrate the occasion too..
Congrats Padhu on ur 100th post, keep rocking dear..Thats a tempting and droolworthy kesari..
Congrats on your century dear!
Kesari looks delicious and drooling here.
Congrats on your 100th post padhu. Love the dessert. yummy!!!
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Congrats on ur 100th post!keep blogging and posting always as always i enjoy ur posts!Great blogging days ahead!Liked your kitchen basics and ur presentation is great!
congrats on your 100th post padhu. kesari romba arumayaa irukku. saappida varalaamaa???????
Congrats and rava kesari is my favrotie.
Congrats Padhu!! Delicious sweet!!
Rava kesari tooo yumm dear! I'm loving it..great shot! 😉
Dear, pls accept a Thank You card from me ya! 😀
Rava kesari…A famous dessert in Bangalore….Ur recipe reminds me of the darshinis in bangalore….the color and aroma of the dish itself drags me…..Looks perfect Padhu..:)
u did wonderful kesari ya its very nice n yammy
Thanks for the recipe. Kesari is my husband's favourite sweet. I made it today and it came out perfect!!!
Your Kesari recipe was perfect, Padhu. I tied it out, and at last, a geat Kesari appeared ! Thank you for the correct recipe.
kesari looks mouthwatery……..i want to try it out .what is this kesari powder.
Congrats. Not only 100th post., I pray your post takes for maximum post here as we all love you. Superb Kesari Bath menu explained here & I have prepared it today. What a taste Mam. Thank you & keep doing well.
Congratulations on your 100th post. You may not know me but you have been my friend in the kitchen sooo many times. A big hug to you.
I tried ur recipe as it is. it came out super delicious. Thanks.
Prepared it today and my children relished it really well.
So I have to thank you again for yet another super recipe.
Thanks a lot madam.
Tried it on my birthday 🙂 and it was good…..
HI Padhu.. i tried this recipe yesterday and it tasted excellent..this is the first time i am commenting in your blog but have been a avid reader of this blog for quite a long time…the best thing about your recipes is the perfect and accurate measurements of the ingredients…i can confidently try out any recipe from your site…you have been doing a great job and best wishes to continue it…
I tried yesterday. It was so tasty . I am sure that everyone would like this, if they try as per the measures you have mentioned. Thanks.
hai padhu mam,i tried the recipe after so many years.
it was perfect. thank you for making me do it the best.
Thanks for the excellent recipe mam….
Beautifully presented. I love Rava Sheera!!
Hi padhu,today is vara lakshmi pooja so I made rava kesari from ur blog. It came out superb.
I tried this. Really super! Thanks a lot for this wonderful recipe.
excellent.I made rava kesari as prasadam.thank you.sairam
Thank you very much padhu…rava kesari was delicious when i made it as per the recipe…thanks a loot
Thank you very much padhu….rava kesari was really delicious when i made it as per your recipe….
I thought rava and water1:2,yr ingredients tastes just superb. Thanks.
hii the recipes that u post are simple and easy to make and the end result is yummy… actually i was looking for a kesari recipe which is almost similar to my mom and grand mom's preparation. It's the same. thank u and keep going so that new comers to cooking like me can learn from u alot
HI Padhus,
Kesari came awesome. Your measurement is perfectly good & easy. Thanks for the perfect kesari.
I always struggled with getting the consistency of the kesari right – always turned out lumpy-then i tried your method and it was miraculous-nailed it finally! thanks
I m a huge fan of urs. I love ur pictoral presentation. Everyy dish i make is refered ro u first then i get the confidence. Kesari was my weak dish i cld never get it right. I tried ur method and it was a success. Thank you.
Thank u so much, Padhu for this yet another perfect recipe by you. I was having about 30 guests at home for my son's birthday & needed a simple & quick recipe for a sweet as I was running out of time. I took the courage to double the quantity of each of these measurements & even then my dish came out really well. Once again, thank u soooo soooo much for providing such simple, quick and easy recipes with such accurate measurements.
Thanks for teaching me padhu
Tried this today for tamil new year. came out very well. Thanks much for posting this.
cheers
Vandana
Hi padhu mam,
I tried this recipe it tasted too gud..
Thank u
Hi Padhu madam
I am follower of your blog. I use your blog based recipe as my template for most dishes I make. I thought sweets are not my genre but this recipe was made in a jiffy and I got positive comments on the preparation too.
Thank you mam
Hello aunty you are my guru in cooking… whatever I would like to prepare the one and only website which I search is padhuskitchen…lovely page with mouthwatering recipes…thank you so much for all your receipes aunty…
Hi padhu
I tried making Rava kesari. It came out very well. It was very tasty. But I tried for the kesari colour which I didn't get. So the kesari made was without colour. Nowadays whatever I would like to prepare the one and only website which I search is padhuskitchen. Now off late very recently I came to know about your website. great good wok. keep t up.
Dear Padhu
It's quite sometime that i am following you. Your recipes are awesome and your steps are very accurate. I had an uninvited guest today and made rava kesari. it came out really delicious.
I have a pic of it. not sure how to attach it here. I didnt add any colourant. It was a white kesari
Hi paddu,
Kesari came out very well . The measurement were perfect.
Thanks for the recipe
Madhu
Hi paddu
The kesari came out very well
Thanks
Madhu
An ardent fan of your blog…kesari came out perfect. I cld reduce a tablespoon of ghee perhaps next time….even managed to mould this with a cup! Wish i cld share this pic with u
Cup means how much
I use Standard measuring cup for all my recipes. It is available in all departmental stores.
1 cup = 200 ml
I am a big fan of you for the recipes.
Thanks for posting,
USHA Krishnamoorthy
Thank you very much. Quick recipe and helped me get the Kesari done in about 30 minutes. Much appreciated!
This is a great recipe. Thanks much. Initially I was skeptical about the ghee and sugar ratio but it was perfect..