Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New year . I thought of trying gulab jamun and post for this new year, but made it with readymade mix. So tried this aval kesari which I wanted to try for long time. I tasted this few years back at a relative's house and I could hardly find it that its made out of aval / poha/ flattened rice. I thought of asking her the recipe, but could not. Later checked with my MIL and made. Here’s the simple recipe.

Aval kesari recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Sweet
Prep Time: 5 mins    |  Cook time: 20 mins    |  Serves: 3

Ingredients

Aval / Poha	1/2 cup
Sugar	1/2 cup
Water	1 cup
Yellow or orange food colour	Methi seed size
Cardamom	1
Ghee	2 & 1/2 tblsp
Salt	1 pinch
Cashew nut	5

Method

1. Heat a pan with little ghee and fry broken cashewnuts in it until golden in medium flame. Transfer to a bowl, add poha to it.

2. Fry for a minute in medium flame without changing its colour. Powder coarsely like rava.

3. Boil water and add the powdered poha, salt to it, mix well. Cook covered in low flame until all water is absorbed and poha cooked softly. Mix in between to avoid burnt bottom.

4. Add sugar, food colour, powdered cardamom to the cooked poha and mix. First it will become watery.

5. Keep stirring in meidum flame adding ghee until it leaves the sides.

Notes

• It takes a bit of time to get cooked. So make sure its cooked well, otherwise later poha won’t be soft in the kesari.
• Add ghee according to your need.

A simple and delicious kesari ready for satisfying your sweet tooth.

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