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Aval kesari recipe | Poha sheera

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Aval kesari recipe, poha sheera with step by step pictures. An easy sweet perfect for any celebration or to satisfy your quick sweet craving.
Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New year🤩. I thought of trying gulab jamun and post for this new year, but made it with readymade mix. So tried this aval kesari which I wanted to try for long time. I tasted this few years back at a relative’s house and I could hardly find it that its made out of aval / poha/ flattened rice. I thought of asking her the recipe, but could not. Later checked with my MIL and made. Here’s the simple recipe.
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Aval kesari recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Sweet
Prep Time: 5 mins    |  Cook time: 20 mins |  Serves: 3

Aval kesari recipe, poha sheera with step by step pictures. An easy sweet perfect for any celebration or to satisfy your quick sweet craving.

aval-kesari-recipe

Ingredients

Aval / Poha – 1/2 cup

Sugar – 1/2 cup

Water – 1 cup

Yellow or orange food colour – Methi seed size

Cardamom – 1

Ghee – 2 & 1/2 tblsp

Salt – 1 pinch

Cashew nut – 5

Method

  1. Heat a pan with little ghee and fry broken cashewnuts in it until golden in medium flame. Transfer to a bowl, add poha to it.

    2. Aval kesari recipe 1

  2. Fry for a minute in medium flame without changing its colour. Powder coarsely like rava.

    3. Aval kesari recipe 2

  3. Boil water and add the powdered poha, salt to it, mix well. Cook covered in low flame until all water is absorbed and poha cooked softly. Mix in between to avoid burnt bottom.

    4. Aval kesari recipe 3

  4. Add sugar, food colour, powdered cardamom to the cooked poha and mix. First it will become watery. (Please use natural food colour as much as possible, it is available online or in gourmet shops that has natural plant based food colours)

    5. Aval kesari recipe 4

  5. Keep stirring in meidum flame adding ghee until it leaves the sides.

    6. Aval kesari recipe 5

Notes

    • It takes a bit of time to get cooked. So make sure its cooked well, otherwise later poha won’t be soft in the kesari.
    • Add ghee according to your need.

A simple and delicious kesari ready for satisfying your sweet tooth.
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  28. Jaffna Kitchen

    Hi Raks,
    Happy new year.
    Love the color of the dish.
    I have been following you for few years now and tried many of your recipes. Loved them all, may god bless you.
    You are my inspiration behind my new build blog..thought of sharing some recipes from my family.
    I take this opportunity to thank you.

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  32. Unknown

    I tried this today. somehow I wasn't convinced with the outcome. i realized this might work well with white sugar. I tried using raw unprocessed brown sugar!! found it less sweet and I also made a mistake of not waiting until all water got absorbed before adding sugar. I added soon after poha bcame soft. will have to correct these next time!!

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