Ingredients

• 1 cup - pineapple
• 1/2 cup - semolina/rava
• 1 cup - sugar
• 5 tbsp - ghee
• 1 pinch - green food colour
• 1 drop - rose/vanilla essence
• 1 handful - cashew nuts
• 1 tbsp - raisins

How to Make Semolina Kesari with Pineapple

• Boil pineapple for 3 minutes and blend it to a paste.
• Heat 1 tsp of oil in a pan/kadai and fry rava for 5 minutes.
• In the same kadai add 1 more tsp of ghee and fry cashew nuts and raisins. Keep it aside.
• Now boil 2 cups of water in the kadai, when it boils, add rava and mix slowly and gently so that it mixes well, and no lumps remain.
• Let it boil till it becomes soft.
• Add ghee. Now rava will start leaving the sides of the kadai.
• Now add sugar and pineapple paste and mix them well. Let it boil for 10 minutes.
• Add colour, essence and finally roasted cashew nuts and raisins.
• Hot, tasty pineapple kesari is delicious and ready to be served.
• Recipe courtesy: http://tamilveg.blogspot.in/