Rava kesari

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Ingredients: 

• Rava - 1 cup
• Sugar - ½ Cup 
• Ghee - 5-6 tsp
• cashews - 5-6 pcs
• Raisins -5-6 pcs 
• Water - 2 Cups 
• Cardamom powder – 1tsp(optional)
• Saffron powder – 1tsp

Method: 

• Take a pan Add 1 tsp of ghee.
• After ghee melted, Fry rava until golden brown. And keep aside.
• Take another pan and fry cashews and raisins until golden brown. And keep it aside.
• Take a heavy bottomed vessel and boil 2 cups of water. 
• Add ½ cup of sugar and 1 tsp of saffron/yellow food coloring.
• Boil until sugar dissolves.
• Mix the fried rava slowly with constant stir and Mix it well.
• Cook it in a low flame and stirring all the while until the mix get thicker.
• Add the fried cashews, raisins and little amount of ghee. Cook in low flame for 2 mins.
• Add the cardamom and saffron powder for garnishing. 

Pumpkin halwa ( Pumpkin pie indian style)

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Ingredients:

• red pumpkin – 2 ½ cup (chopped)
• Almond - 1 tsp
• Cashew - 5 tsp
• Milk - 2 cups
• Sugar - 2 tsp
• milk cream - ½ cup
• Raisins - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 4 tsp

Method:

• Heat some ghee in a pan.
• Fry the cashew, raisins until brown and keep aside.
• Cook pumpkin with 1 cup of milk.
• When it is half cooked, add remaining milk and grind it with almond, milk cream  and cashew nuts.
• In a heavy bottomed vessel, add some ghee, sugar and ground pumpkin.
• Cook it in a low flame and stirring all the while until the halwa get thicker and ghee floats on top.
• Then transfer it to greased plate and spread it.
• Garnish with fried raisins and cashews.