Rava Kesari

Ingredients:

• Rava / Sooji - 1 cup
• Cheeni / Sugar / Sakkari - 2 cups
• Cashewnuts / Mundiri / Kaju - 10-12 pcs
• Raisins / Dratchai / Kishmish -10-15 pcs
• Ghee - 5tbsp
• Orange food colour - one pinch
• Saffron / Kunguma Poo - optional
• Roja Moggu - 1 (it's normally available along with other 'masala' items)
• Water - 4 cups
• Elaichi / Elakkai - 3 pcs

Method

• Heat 2tbsp of ghee in a pan and in that pan fry broken cashews, raisins and keep them aside
• Add another 2 tbsp of ghee in a pan and fry rava till it becomes light pink colour and keep aside
• Add 4 cups of water in a pan and bring it to boil, then add orange color and saffron in it
• Add rava slowly and stir well and mix well, and pour some ghee intermittently. This will give it a nice flavour
• When the rava is cooked well, add sugar and mix well
• Keep stirring until the rava starts leaving the sides of the pan
• Garnish with cashews,raisins and cardomon powder which was done in the first step

Here it is the mouth watering 'Rava Kesari' ready and waiting for you. Enjoy it!

Tip

Add the cashews at the very last, just before eating it, this will keep them crisp

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Coconut milk pulav

Ingredients:

• Rice / Basmamati rice -  2 cups
• Diced Onion - 2 cups
• Green Peas - 1 cup
• Potato - 2 nos 
• Green chillies - 3
• Ginger and garlic paste - 2 tbsp
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Coconut milk - 2 cups
• Masala stick-1
• Bayleaf - 2
• Cardomon - 2
• Cashews - 5-6 broken

Method
Add 2 table spoons of ghee in a pan and fry masala stick,cardomon,bay leaf
After frying ginger garlic paste till the smell goes out then add peas and stir for 2minutes,
then add onions,boiled potato and fry for 5minutes,after all the vegetables are cooked,now
add coconut milk and stir it,allow it to oil for 5minutes till the bubbles come.
Then add 2cups of rice and stir for 2minutes and add salt after that add 2cups of water
then close the pressure cooker till the 3 vistle comes.
After a while open te cooker and add some mint and corriander leaves for garnishing.
atlast your coconut pulao is ready to eat.