Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Fruit Kesari

For Navrathri Some sweets, snacks, sundal or fruits can be offered as 'neivedhyam'.To know about how navrathri festival celebrated read here.



Ingredients:

1cup - Semolina/Rava

1 1/2 cup – Sugar

1/2 cup - Ghee

1/8 tsp of kesari food color dissolved in 2 Tbsps of water or milk(optional

1 1/2 cup – water or 1cup water ½ cup milk( I doesn't use milk)

1/2 cup - Fresh pineapple, apple, banana, grapes. dates(and any other fruit you desire cut into small cubes or grated)

Any fruit essences-1tsp

1 or 2 tsp cardamom powder

50gmsCashews/raisins nuts

Method

1. Fry Rava with 2tbsp of ghee,till aroma leave out on medium flame(Don't over fry) and keep it aside.

2. Add 1 tbsp ghee fry raisins and cashewnut and keep it aside.

3. Add the Kesar color dissolved in water

4. Now in same pan, add water and sugar, stir till sugar dissolves

5. Then addFruits, fried rava stir it once and let it cook till water is absorbed and rava leaves the walls of Pan.

6. Add ghee and essences, cardamom powder stir it and garnish with cashew &raisins Serve hot or cold.

18 comments:

Deepthi Shankar said...

yummu yummy ... love the colour .. wish u a very happy navaratri

Indian Khana said...

Wow fruit kesari looking so yummy....am really drooling over it...Wish you Happy Navratri and Durga Pooja

Anjum said...

Happy navratri and durga pooja to u and ur family..this looks like a traditional recipe

anudivya said...

Lovely color! Looks yum!

Vidhya said...

kesari looks really yummy Jaishree. I don't why your feed is not updating in my blog. will check out.

Sagari said...

kesari looks yummmm vidya

Sum Raj said...

happy navratri...this fruit kesari looks awsome..

raaji said...

Sure a sweet with fruits!!!that sounds healthy except for the ghee......

Unknown said...

wow.. what a colour? really yummy & awesome...

venuss66 said...

It's my favourite.:)

ST said...

Lovely colour....yumm yumm fruit kesari......

Jaishree Iyer said...

Thank you friends for lovely comments.happy to know you all like it:)

Sameera Ansari said...

Wow,looks so good :)

cyclopseven said...

yummy..

Raks said...

I love fruit kesari and this look yummy,mouth watering!

lubnakarim06 said...

Wow looks divine.

Yasmeen said...

Fruits in semolina look deliciously unique:)

Akila said...

will soon try yours... love the kesari....