Rava Kesari - Sooji ka Halwa

This will be my quick and easy dessert and I do whenever my hubby needs a dessert or evening snack . Because it hardly takes 10min to prepare and cook. Other yummilicious sweet....

Ingredients:

• Rava - 1 cup (sooji or Fine Semolina)
• Sugar - 1cup
• Water - 1/2cup
• Ghee - 3Tbsp
• Cardamom - 4
• Cashew - 10
• Raisins - 5
• Artificial food color - 1pinch

Preparation:

• Roast the rava/sooji in a dry pan just for 1min in low flame, so they become light brown in color.
• In a medium deep vessel, heat the water and bring it to boil.
• Add the food color and the rava in low flame and keep stirring so that no lumps are formed.
• Cook it for 2-3mins, once the rava is cooked, add the sugar to it and again keep stirring.
• Once the sugar gets dissolved, cook it for another 1min to bring to solid consistency.
• Heat the ghee in a pan and add the cashews, roast till it gets brown in color.
• Turn off the flame and add the raisins.
• Garnish the dish with roasted cashews, raisins and crushed cardamons.

Note: Once rava is roasted, add a tsp of ghee and give a stir. It prevents the rava forming lumps.