Turbinado Cane Brown Sugar Sooji Kesari

This is nothing but Kesari Bath/ Rava Kesari/ Sooji Kesari/ Sooji Bath/ Rava Bath. It’s  a popular South Indian sweet dish made from semolina is mainly prepared for breakfast or during festival feast.  

It’s a simple sweet recipe prepared with basic ingredients like semolina, sugar and ghee. it is topped with dry fruits like chopped cashews, almonds and some raisins which gives a nice crunchy effect to it. it is also prepared with milk which is known as Sooji kesari or rava kesari and it is offered as nivedyam.

I used cane brown sugar to make this tasty dish. I bought this from Costco.

Ingredients 

Sooji/Rava/Semolina-1 Cup

Ghee - 1/4 Cup

Brown Sugar - 1 1/2 Cups

Salt - a pinch

Cardamom - 1/4 tbsp

Cashew Nuts & Dry Grapes - a handful 

Quick Method

Heat Pan + Ghee + Dry Roast l(Nuts & Raisins)

Same pan + Dry Roast  Sooji/ Rava

Kadai +  Heat Water +  Sooji/ Rava + Brown Sugar + Cardamom + Extra ghee 

Method 

Heat 2 tbsp ghee / clarified butter and roast cashews, raisins on low flame. once the cashews turn golden brown, keep aside. 

In the same ghee roast rava on low flame for 5 minutes or till it turns aromatic and keep aside. 

In a large kadai boil 1 cup water. keeping the flame on low, add roasted rava. stir continuously till the rava absorbs water and no lumps are formed. 

Add brown sugar, keeping the flame on low, stir well till the sugar dissolves.

Then add ¼ cup ghee and stir continuously. make sure the mixture is combined well and no lumps are present. cover and simmer for 2 minutes or till rava gets cooked well completely. 

 Add the roasted cashews, raisins and ¼ tsp cardamom power. mix well till the rava kesari separates from pan. finally, serve rava kesari / kesari bath as a dessert.