Rava Kesari Recipe - Pressure cooker Rava Kesari Recipe
Easy, lump free, fool proof Rava kesari recipe in pressure cooker
Servings: 3 people
Ingredients
To roast in ghee
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 2 tbsp Cooking oil
- 10 Cashew nuts
- ½ cup Rava / Sooji / Semolina / Bombay Rava You can also use Chiroti rava
To boil
- ¾ cup Sugar Use 1 cup for more sweetness
- 1.75 cups Water You can use 1.5 cups for fluffy kesari
- ½ tsp Cardamom powder
- 1 pinch Orange food color
Instructions
- Heat oil+ ghee in a pressure cooker. Add cashews and rava.
- Roast till cashews turn light golden in color. Do it patiently in medium flame. It takes 3 to 5 minutes. By the time cashews are roasted, Rava would be roasted well with nice flavor. Make sure you don't burn anything.
- While this roasting in process, switch on another burner, place a vessel to make sugar syrup. Add in sugar, water, cardamom powder and saffron threads.
- Let the water comes to roll boil vigorously. Switch off the flame.
- In the mean time, rava would be roasted well. Switch off the flame.
- Add the boiled sugar syrup to the roasted rava in pressure cooker. Remember flame is OFF.
- As soon as you add boiling water, rava sizzles, splashes and boils well. Be careful while adding water. Add all the water, mix well and close the cooker lid tightly. Put the weight valve.
- Let it rest for 20 minutes. Rava would be cooked well and soft. Open the lid.
- You will see the glossy Kesari with ghee seperated on top. Mix gently and scoop it.
- Serve warm and enjoy.
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Notes
Make sure water roll boils well before adding to rava. Big bubbles should come.
Switch off the roasted rava in the cooker and then add the water to it. Water splashes. So stand at a safe distance.
Do not forget to put the weight valve after adding the water. Rava gets cooked well in the steam.
You should do the roasting process and sugar syrup boiling parallely in two burners. Otherwise Kesari won't turn out soft and well cooked.
Rava should be roasted well but make sure color is not dark.
For variations, you can also use ghee, rava, sugar and water in the ratio of 1:2:3:4 which is 1/4 cup of ghee, 1/2 cup rava, 3/4 cup sugar and 2 cups water.
If you want to double the recipe, please make sure you use a bigger sized cooker of atleast 3 liters.