Ingredients

• Oats - 1/2 cup
• Rava - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Water - 3 cups
• Cardamom - 1
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Orange food colour - a pinch
• Dates - 20
• Besan - 1 cup
• Rice flour - 1/4 cup
• Chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Water - a little
• Oil - for frying

How to Make Oats and dates bajji

• Powder the oats coarsely.
• Boil water in a pan and add rava, oats, and sugar to the pan and mix well.
• Add the food colour and keep stirring until it becomes thick.
• Finally add ghee and cardamom powder and mix well to make oats kesari and keep it aside.
• To make oats and dates bajji:
• Slit the dates neatly and remove the seed.
• Stuff 1 tsp kesari inside the dates.
• Mix besan, rice flour, chilli powder and salt with adequate water and dip the stuffed dates until it is well coated.
• Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown.
• Recipe courtesy: 4 th sense cooking