Ingredients

• 1 cup - rawa
• 1 cup - sugar
• 2.5 cups - water
• 5 - almonds, slivered
• 10 - cashews, broken
• 10 to 12 - raisins
• 1/4 tsp - cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp - nutmeg powder
• 2 pinches - saffron soaked in 1 tbsp of warm milk
• A few drops of yellow food color
• 3 tbsp - ghee

How to Make Kesar Rava Halwa

• Heat ghee in a large heavy pan, add rava. Stir and roast on low flame for 7-8 mins.
• Bring water to a boil and add sugar.
• Add the boiling water to the rava, little at a time stirring continuously.
• When well mixed, check rava grain between fingers and taste for sweetness.
• Adjust sweetness, and add more boiling water if grain is hard.
• Add the remaining ingredients, cover and simmer till ghee separates.
• Add colour and mix well.
• Grease a katori or steel cup.
• Press hot halwa inside it, and unmould onto a plate.
• Garnish with a few slivers of almonds and cashews.
• Serve hot.