Pineapple Kesari

Ingredients for Pineapple Kesari:

1. Ghee – 2 big spoons

2. Semolina – 100 gm

3. Boiled milk – ½ litre

4. Sugar – ½ cup

5. Cashews – 25 gm

    Raisins – 25 gm

    Pine apple cut into square pieces – 1/2

How to prepare Pineapple Kesari?

1. Heat ghee in a pan and roast semolina (rava).

2. Add boiling milk to it and cook rava.

3. Add sugar to it and stir continuously till rava is fried well.

4. Kesari should not stick to the edges of the pan.

5. Fry pine apple, raisins and cashews in ghee and add to kesari.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, November 1-14, 2010

Pineapple Kesari (Recipe 2) 

Ingredients for Pineapple Kesari (Recipe 2):

1. Ghee – 3 tablespoons

2. Rava – 1 cup

3. Pineapple – 1 cup

4. Water – 2 cups

5. Sugar – 1 cup

6. Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp

7. Raisins and cashews – As needed

How to prepare Pineapple Kesari (Recipe 2)?

1. Heat a tablespoon of ghee in a pan and fry some raisins and cashews.

2. Keep them aside and add semolina to the remaining ghee.

3. Fry semolina and remove it from flame before its colour changes.

4. Add one table spoon of ghee to the pan and add pineapple pieces.

5. Sauté it for three minutes and then add 2 cups of water to it.

6. When the contents boil well, reduce the flame.

7. Slowly add fried semolina and keep stirring to avoid formation of lumps.

8. Add sugar to it and keep stirring.

9. Add cardamom powder and keep stirring till water content is fully absorbed.

10. Finally add one more tablespoon of ghee to it.

11. After 2 minutes, put off the flame.

12. Grease a plate with ghee and transfer your pineapple kesari to it.

13. Spread it uniformly and decorate with fried cashews and raisins.

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