Paal kesari/ milk kesari is prepared with rava/ sooji, milk and sugar as main ingredients. Full video, stepwise pictures recipe.I learnt paal kesari only after marriage after my MIL made this. Till then I used to hate sweets and won’t eat much sweets. But I was surprised myself when I wanted to eat more ‘n’ more when she gave me some… That time I was pregnant… May be that’s the reason.
After that my whole taste and cravings were different from before. My hubby always likes milk Kesari over the ordinary Kesari.
Cashews, raisins can make it look more fancy, but I like to keep it simple. I have updated the recipe with video. In the video, I have not used anything for colour. That’s how it is prepared usually at my home. So here’s the recipe of Kesari using milk.
Paal kesari recipe
Paal kesari recipe, a sweet prepared with rava/ sooji, milk and sugar as main ingredients. Full video recipe.
Servings 4
Cup measurements
Ingredients
- ½ cup Sooji/ rava
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1.5 cup Milk
- 6 Cashews Optional
- 1 pinch Saffron or yellow food colour Optional
- 1 cardamom powdered
- 3 tbsp Ghee
Instructions
- Roast rava with a teaspoon of ghee till nice aroma rises.
- In a heavy bottomed vessel or a non stick pan preferably,boil milk.
- Add Roasted rava in a sprinkled way without forming any lumps,with constant stirring.
- Simmer the stove and cook covered.(3-4 min approx)Take care not to let burnt at the bottom of the vessel,as milk sticks to the vessel easily.
- Add the sugar and again stir well with constant mashing,to avoid forming any lumps.
- If there are few lumps,mash them. Some can get mashed easily after the kesari gets thick.
- After adding sugar,the kesari turns bit on runny side,but after sometime it will get thickened.
- This milk kesari needs more sugar than the ordinary kesari, the ratio of sooji: sugar: milk is 1:2:3.
- Add ghee little by little and keep stirring.
- Add all the ghee and keep cooking till ghee oozes out.
- This totally takes some 6-8 minutes approx.
- Spread in a greased plate,decorate with cashews fried in ghee(optional).
Video
Notes
Milk kesari is supposed to be white in colour and my MIL doesn't add any colour or cashew or even cardamom.
This will give the milk taste dominantly.
I added a little saffron in the kesari you see in my pictures, hence the mild yellow colour.
Paal kesari method:
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- In 2 tsp of ghee, roast cashews and keep aside.
- Roast rava with a teaspoon of ghee till nice aroma rises.
- In a heavy bottomed vessel or a non stick pan preferably,boil milk.
- Add Roasted rava in a sprinkled way without forming any lumps,with constant stirring.
- Simmer the stove and cook covered.(3-4 min approx)
- Take care not to let burnt.. at the bottom of the vessel,as milk sticks to the vessel easily..
- Add the sugar and again stir well with constant mashing,to avoid forming any lumps… If there are few lumps,mash them. Some can get mashed easily after the kesari gets thick.
- After adding sugar,the kesari turns bit on runny side,but after sometime it will get thickened.
- This milk kesari needs more sugar than the ordinary kesari …the ratio of sooji:sugar:milk is 1:2:3.
- Add ghee little by little and keep stirring.
- Add all the ghee and keep cooking till ghee oozes out.This totally takes some 6-8 minutes approx.
- Spread in a greased plate,decorate with cashews fried in ghee(optional)..!!Enjoy…
Milk Kesari looks delicious. Great entry!
That’s a great looking dessert…thanks for sending it over.
super….kesar would be giving more flavour to kesari…
Kesari Bhaat is my fave dessert. Looks delcious Raks!:)
Came here to check Sugian!
yay yay – tutti frutti – as a kid yellow and green were my favourites. 🙂 – i used to grabhandfuls from the fridge without amma’s knowledge
hey this is my alltime fav i can eat at any time ..
mmmmmm….mouthwatering milk-kesari……….Nice one Raks 😉
Delicious
i like hint of pinapple chunks in my kesari baath:) wonderful entry…
Daily meals
Thankyou:)
sunita
Thank YOU!
easycrafts
Sure,Without elachi too we can make only with kesar’s flavour!
asha
Thankyou,for your compliments…:))
Lakshmi
Hey its favourite for me now too…You know I ate two three handful of tutti frutis while I made this…;D
smn
Oh is it…
Sirisha
Thanx for ur compliments…:)
happy cook
Thankyou:))
That looks very good. I’ve never tried Milk Kesari before… must’ve been creamy and delicous.
looks so good Raks. Nice idea of adding milk instead of water. Yours looks delicious and it’s a great entry for the event. I too made a very simple one for the saffron event. will post it in the afternoon.
Very nice sweet for the event:-)
Will love to try this.
Looks delicious Raks, colour is of course awesome! Will try it soon 🙂
Nice one Raks! Sunita’s house is gona be smelling of saffron for months now:)
nice..tutti-frooti in kesari..what is not to love 🙂
Yummilicious!!! Kesari is my fav.
very nice ingredients inside the kesari. very pretty and colorful too:)
Kesari bath looks very colourful love tuty fruty. Nice entry Rak’s.
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I have tagged u for fantastic foue MEME..plz it asap…bye
Sia
Actually I mixed every kesari version…:D
Lavanya
Sure it was..!!Give it a try next time..!
Kribha
Thanx a lot for ur compliments and I already saw ur entry…:))
tbc
Thankyou!!
Rina
Try it out rina..:)
namratha
Glad u like the dessert and colour :))
Mansi
Yes mansi sure her home will be full of saffron smell and yours with peaches;)
Rajitha&
pushpaThanks for the comments!!
Sahrmi,Madhu&Remya
Thanyou for your compliments and thax for tagging me Remya:))
Yes, I like 🙂
Hi!
Milk kesari looks delicious!! good entry for the event!
Thanx Usha and Cynthiya for your comments…
very innovative! tasty kesari.. very good entry!
It was a great hit Raks…everyone appreciated me at my home….all credits goes to you…rocking rak's …
It was great hit Rak's…keep rocking…everyone appreciated me for this recipe…all credits goes to you…
Eating the kesari I just made….all I can say is…YUMMYLICIOUS! Thanks for the recipe, Raks.
hi i like ur each and every post.. i'm newly married.. ur site helps me to learn more.. and i have one doubt.. if we boil milk cream(paal aadai) will form na.. it won't affect the taste?
Keep stirring to avoid forming aadai. Hope this helps.
i just tried this today…i'm not a huge fan of sweets but this was amazing…and it was simple enough too…thank you…. :)i've tried many recipes from your site and they have come out very well 🙂
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hi, i'm a starter in kitchen… can to tel wen to add that saffron??
You can add it along with milk. Soak in luke warm milk if possible. I think I forgot to add the point..
Thank yo 4 ur rece… it came out gud..
Hi raji..
Made this today for our engagement anniversary (is the day called that way??! 🙂 ) ..Turned out good raji…thanks for giving us variety of dishes..
Hi Raks, thanks for sharing this recipe.
Can I add 1/2 cup of sugar instead of 1 cup? if so do i need to adjust the amount of milk?
Can we add wheat rava?
You can try but totally different recipe and taste.
I love ur blog.. i m goin to try it today for tamil new year 🙂
When I'm into Indian cooking recipe ur blog is the one search first. Thnx for all great mouthwatering recipe
Mouth watering