Beetroot rava kesari | beetroot kesari bath-How to make-Step by step photos & Video

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 8-10 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type: Sweets

Ingredients

• Sooji / Ravai [Semolina]- 1 cup
• Beetroot Juice - 3 cups
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Water - 2 cups
• Cardamom Powder- 1 tbsp
• Cashew nuts - 9
• Raisins - 6
• Pistachios - 4 [optional]
• Almonds - 4 [optional]
• Cloves - 1

Preparation

• Peel off the beetroot skin, wash & Grate the beetroot
• Put grated beetroot & pour water grind, drain & extract beetroot juice out of it and keep it aside
• Dry roast Sooji / Rava and keep it aside
• Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pan and roast Cashew nuts, raisins, pistachios, almonds and keep it aside
• Pour 3 cups of beetroot juice in the same pan and let it boil
• Add 2 tbsp of ghee to it (this avoids stickiness between the rava particles)
• Then add one cup of sugar, cloves and wait till bubbles come out.
• Now add roasted rava slowly and gently to the pan and mix well.
• Sprinkle cardamom powder mix well. Cover lid & cut off heat then leave it for 4 min.
• Then add 2 tbsp of ghee mix well.
• Garnish with roasted raisins, almonds, pistachios and Cashew nuts then serve hot

Note

• You can add saffron[soak saffron in warm water or warm milk for 10 min then add]
• You can make Kesari ball and serve
• For another variation:-You can add milk, replace sugar with brown sugar, jaggery or honey.
• Same method for making carrot rava kesari, pine apple & mango rava kesari

How to make Healthy beetroot rava kesari video

How to make Beetroot kesari bath-Step by step photos

Grate half beetroot

Dry roast rava/semolina for 2 min or till you get nice aroma

Heat ghee in a pan add pista, almonds, raisins & cashewnuts

Roast till golden brown

Add grated beetroot in a mixer jar

Add water then finely grind

Drain beetroot juice

Squeeze extract beetroot juice

Add beetroot juice in a pan let it boil

Add cloves

Add sugar

Add roasted rava stir gently for 2 min then cover lid, cut off heat & leave it for 4 min

Remove lid after 4 min. We can see the beetroot rava kesari texture-perfectly cooked

Add cardamom powder [freshly ground]

Add ghee

Add ghee roasted nuts & raisins

Beetroot kesari bath is ready serve hot

Colourful rava kesari with beetroot juice