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Kesari Bhath
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Ingredients
•
Plain rice
- 1 cup
•
Sugar
- 1 ¼ cups
•
Water
- ¼ cup
•
Ghee
- 1 tablespoon
•
Saffron
- a little
•
Milk (for dissolving saffron)
- 1 tablespoon
•
Cardamom powder
- a pinch
•
Cashew nuts (broken)
- 1 tablespoon
•
Raisins
- 1 tablespoon
•
Kesari powder
- as required
•
Coconut (grated)
- 1 teaspoon
(optional)
Method
1.
Cook
rice
softer than normal consistency.
2.
Keep
a heavy vessel on fire and
add
sugar
with
water
.
3.
Stir
constantly in medium flame till you reach soft ball consistency.
4.
Reduce
flame
add
cooked
rice
with
kesari powder
,
saffron
dissolved in hot
milk
.
5.
Stir
gently till moisture dries up.
6.
Remove
from fire
add
cardamom powder
, fried
cashew nuts
and
raisins
with rest of the
ghee
.
7.
Add
grated
coconut
if desired.
Variation
• In place of
sugar
, candied
sugar
which is powdered well can be used.
•
Reduce
powdered
sugar
candy to ¾ cup to 1 cup as per
taste
.
• Do not
add
colour for this
rice
.
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