Ingredients:
1 cup rava / semolina
2 cups water
1 cup sugar (add more according to your sweetness)
3-4 tbsp + 1/4 cup ghee
4 tbsp saffron water
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
12-15 cashew nuts
2 tbsp raisins
Preparation:
- Soak 2-3 pinches of saffron threads in 4 tbsp of warm water for 15 minutes.
- Heat 3-4 tbsp ghee in a pan and add cashew nuts and raisins and roast at low flame till golden. Keep it aside.
- Add rava into the same pan and roast at low flame for 5 minutes till aromatic. Keep it aside.
- In a large thick bottomed pan, boil 2 cups of water.
- Add roasted rava into this and stir continuously at low flame until the rava gets cooked and all the water evaporates with no lumps.
- Then add sugar and stir well till the sugar dissolves.
- Add saffron water, cardamom powder and 1/4 cup of ghee and stir continuously till combined well and becomes thick.
- Add roasted cashew nuts and raisins and mix well.
- When the mixture separates from the pan, switch off the flame…Serve warm…
