Amma's recipe of Kesari! - An easy Indian sweet
3/4 cup - (1/2 cup cooking oil+ 1/4 cup ghee)
1 cup sugar (or a little more according to your taste)
3 cups water
2 pinches of kesari powder (red/orange color powder)
1 tsp. of halved cashews
1 tsp. of raisins
Dry roast sooji (don’t wait until it changes color). Pour
the oil and ghee in a pan and let it heat a little bit then add sooji to it.
The sooji should be soggy in the oil+ghee mixture. In the side, heat the 3 cups
of water in a pan with 2 pinches of kesari powder (red/orange color powder).
Bring it to a boil. Then add the boiled water to the sooji pan (the sooji pan
should be simmered while adding the water), mix it thoroughly without any
lumps. Let the sooji cook. Stir it for another 5 mins with the stove turned to
the lowest possible. After the sooji is cooked, add the sugar to it and mix it
thoroughly again. In a separate pan, put 2 tsp. of ghee and add the raisins and
halved cashews and fry it a little bit until cashes turns its color a little
and raisins blow up in the ghee. Then add this to the prepared sooji on top for
decoration.
