Rava Kesari Bath Recipe (Semolina)

Rava(Semolina) Kesari Bath is one of the quickest and easiest dish to  prepare. It is a very handy recipe. Kesari bath can be made out of other ingredients like vermicelli, rice etc which I'll display in my future blog posts. . This dish is common  in many Indian functions .However, over there,  they add different colors like yellow or orange to the kesari bath to make it look attractive enough, but using saffron strands are more natural and way more healthier too!

How To Prepare Rawa Kesari Bath

Preparing kesari bath is one of the easiest jobs in the kitchen . It hardly takes around 20 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients To Prepare Rava Kesri Bath

• Rava / semolina- 1 cup

• Sugar -1 1/4 cup

• Ghee -1 cup

• Cardamoms - 3 to 4 

• Cloves - 1

• Salt-A pinch

• Saffron - A Few Strands

• Water - 3 cups

• Cashew nut pieces - 8

• Raisins - 8

Method To Prepare Rava Kesari Bath

• First and foremost, heat a pan.

• Add half cup of ghee into it.

• Add cashew nut pieces raisins and cloves into it.

• Slightly fry it into golden brown color.

• Add rava ( semolina) into the pan.

• Fry it lightly without stopping for around five to ten minutes.

• In the mean time, boil water in another vessel.

• When the rava ( semolina) changes its color slightly, add the boiling water into the rava and lower the flame.

• Let the rava get mixed with the water properly.

• Once it is mixed, add sugar and a pinch of salt into the rava mix.

• Let it stay for another five minutes till the sugar gets melted properly.

• Now, add the remaining ghee into the pan.

• Dip the saffron strands in two tsp of hot milk.

• Add the saffron milk into the pan.

• Finally powder the cardamom seeds and mix it with the rava mixture.

Now, your yummy and mouth watering rava kesari bath is ready to be served.!!!

Kitchen Masti Points

1. One of the most important point while preparing kesari bath is to see to it that the rava gets properly roasted. Or else the rava will turn into a sticky mixture.
2. You can add pineapple pieces into the rava mixture along with the boiling water.
3. Instead of saffron strands you can also add saffron color, but saffron strands will give you an unique taste.
4. You can prepare this and store it for a day. It will not change its taste
5. In restaurants, A dish named Chow Chow bath is available. It is nothing but a combination of Rava Upma and Rava Kesari Bath
6. As I have already mentioned earlier, this dish takes somewhere around 20 minutes to prepare, but in case, if you want it to be cooked even more earlier, then boil the sugar along with the water and then pour it in to the rava mixture.