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Banana Rava Kesari

October 3, 2016 By Priya Shiva 13 Comments

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What do festivals mean to you? It means good times, good food and good memories to me. Life should be like that, a continual celebration where we over look our worries and keep our spirits high. Religious festival and celebrations have also become an important way to teach my boy about our culture. It could be about the reasons we celebrate a festival or the excitement to wear a new dress or talk about what food we going to eat for it. Food is an important part of any celebration whether it is a festival or an event like birthday or anniversary. So, I made Banana Rava Kesari today to celebrate the Navratri festival..

banana rava kesari

Navratri is a festival where Hindus worship Deity Durga. It is a festival of Nine days and Nine forms of Devi are worshiped. Navratri is celebrated in various ways in different parts of India. Some keep a “jagaran”where Devi is worshiped whole night. Some celebrate it as a Durgotsva and we keep Golu in South India. Each day we prepare an offering for Devi and relish it. I just prepared a simple sweet dish today. Rava Kesari is a popular pudding from South India which is made with Semolina, sugar and loaded with Ghee. I decided to give this sweet a fruity twist by adding banana to it. So, sharing the recipe for Banana Rava kesari today and wish you all a very Happy Navratri festival.

You can also try other sweets for this Navratri festival like – Semiyan Payasam, Rava Ladoo, makhana kheer

banana-kesari

 

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Banana Rava Kesari

Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
Keyword dessert
Servings 4
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • Rava/Semolina - ½ cup
  • Sugar - ½ cup
  • Banana - 1
  • Ghee - ¼ cup
  • Water - 1 cup
  • Yellow food colour - 1/8 tsp
  • Green Cardamom - 2 powdered
  • Chopped cashews - 8
  • Raisins - 8

Instructions

  1. Dilute food colour in 1 tbsp water and keep it aside.
  2. Peel the banana and puree it by mashing it nicely or blitz it in your blender.
  3. Heat 1 tsp ghee in a pan and roast cashews and raisins till light golden brown and keep it aside.
  4. In the same pan, roast the rava on low flame till its color changes slightly to light brown and a nice aroma comes from it. Transfer it into a bowl and keep it aside.
  5. Add water to the pan and when it starts boiling, lower the flame and add colour water. Mix well.
  6. Add rava slowly and keep stirring. Make sure no lumps are formed.
  7. Now add sugar, banana puree and mix well.
  8. Lower the flame, add ghee and keep stirring.
  9. When ghee starts leaving on the sides, add roasted cashews and raisins, cardamom powder and mix well.
  10. Transfer the content into a serving bowl and serve it warm.

Recipe Notes

I have used yellow food color but you can also add few strands of Saffron. Just soak saffron strands in warm water before adding it.

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Filed Under: Pudding Recipes, Sweet and Desserts Tagged With: diwali sweets, kesari, navratri sweets, Navratri/Diwali sweets, Pudding, rava kesari, Saffron Pudding

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Comments

  1. Preethi'sCuisine says

    October 3, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    5 stars
    Lovely recipe and clicks. I love Banana Rava Kesari.

    Reply
    • Priya Shiva says

      October 3, 2016 at 5:41 pm

      Thank you Preethi 🙂

      Reply
  2. Hiba says

    October 3, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    5 stars
    So yummy Priya.

    Reply
    • Priya Shiva says

      October 3, 2016 at 8:24 pm

      Thank you 🙂

      Reply
  3. Sujatha says

    October 3, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    5 stars
    I made it Priya…its come out tasty..thank you for sharing the recipe

    Reply
    • Priya Shiva says

      October 3, 2016 at 8:25 pm

      Thank you Sujatha for trying my recipe 🙂

      Reply
  4. ALBONI says

    October 4, 2016 at 7:11 am

    Kesari looks awesome good pictures too …. will surely try it ….. thank you. …

    Reply
    • Priya Shiva says

      October 4, 2016 at 6:30 pm

      Thank you 🙂

      Reply
  5. Pooja says

    October 4, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Thank you Priya for the recipe

    Reply
  6. Rafeeda says

    October 5, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Banana rava kesari sounds wow! I love rava kesari, easy to make and delicious too… must try your version some time…

    Reply
    • Priya Shiva says

      October 6, 2016 at 7:57 am

      Thank you Rafee. Try it out. It is delicious indeed 🙂

      Reply
  7. Vidya says

    May 14, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    5 stars

    I just tried the recepie without the food coloring and it’s heavenly !!

    Reply
    • Priya Shiva says

      May 17, 2017 at 6:53 am

      I’m glad you liked it 🙂

      Reply

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