Saturday 12 March 2016

POHA KESARI

Any festival or occasion is incomplete without a sweet dish.  Sweet dishes are always required for some people especially after having lunch.  I crave for some sweets after lunch if not a piece of chocolate.

Poha kesari is a sweet dish made out of poha or aval or beaten rice or rice flakes.  It is very easy to make and tasty too like other kind of kesari we make with Suji/rava/semolina.  If you add sugar to any item, you can make anything and everything and it will be tasty because it is sweet.  

Since I always want to eat something sweet after having my lunch, I keep on searching for some kind of sweets in the fridge.  If I do not find anything, I eat a piece of jaggery or bit sugar.   

Poha kesari is a simple preparation and can be made for any occasions.  If you are having unexpected guests, this is an ideal sweet to serve as dessert.



Let us look at the recipe now:


     Ingredients:

     1/2 cup Poha   
     1/2 cup sugar 
     2 cups water 
     1-2 tbsp ghee 
     5-6 cashew nuts 
     1 tbsp kishmish (optional)
     orange colour a pinch 
     cardamom powder a pinch
     

Method:

Dry roast the poha  for 5 minutes in a low flame.  Ensure that you do not burn them while roasting.  Put them in mixie and make powder out of it like rava consistency. Heat little ghee in kadai, add the cashew nuts, roast and keep aside.  add the kishmish and keep aside.  I did not use it as my daughter did not like this.  

Add the remaining ghee and roast the poha in it for 5-10  minutes.    Boil 2 cups of  water  in a vessel.   Add the hot water slowly to the roasted poha and cook it in medium flame till the water is totally evaporated and the poha is cooked.   At this stage, add the sugar to it.  Keep the flame low. Mix the orange colour in little water and add this too in the mix.  now cook till you get a mass like we make sheera.   add the fried cashew and kishmish.   Your poha kesari is ready.

How to serve:

 serve hot or cold as you wish.

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