Paal kesari / milk kesari is a sweet prepared with rava/ sooji, milk and sugar as main ingredients. Instead of making regular kesari, do try this for a change, you will definitely love this. Full video, stepwise pictures recipe.
Make it for a quick treat, for special occasions and festival offering.
Check out my regular kesari recipe and semiya kesari recipe in this website.
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 one of 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.
Ingredients
Here are the simple ingredients needed to make paal kesari.
- Rava - Suji/ sooji, Semolina - You can use any type : Fine, roasted, unroasted, coarse, ceroti rava. I used roasted rava.
- Milk - I used regular full fat unboiled milk.
- Sugar - White sugar for sweetening.
- Ghee - Adds flavour.
- Cardamom - Main ingredient for flavour.
- Saffron - For rich flavour, mild colour.
- Cashews - Adds a nutty flavour, texture to the sweet.
Please check my recipe card below for exact measurements.
Step by step method
- Firstly, in 2 teaspoons of ghee, roast cashews and keep aside. Then roast rava with a teaspoon of ghee till nice aroma rises.
2. After that, in a heavy bottomed vessel or a non stick pan preferably, boil milk. Then, add Roasted rava in a sprinkled way without forming any lumps, with constant stirring.
3. Simmer the stove and cook furthermore, 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.
Add ghee little by little and keep stirring. Finally add cashews and cardamom.
Add all the ghee and keep cooking till ghee oozes out and gets thick. Switch off the flame.
Transfer to a greased plate or bowl, enjoy warm.
Top tip
- Make sure to cook the rava well before adding sugar as after adding sugar, the rava will not cook.
- So for soft texture, cook the rava well. If you feel milk is too thick for the rava, and it takes time for cooking, you can also mix water along or use more milk.
- Always cook in medium flame while roasting rava or cooking in milk. Do not let milk stick to bottom as it will change the colour of kesari to dull too.
My notes
I used unboiled milk for making the recipe. If you want you can also use boiled milk.
While cooking rava, make sure to mix well as you add rava little by little to avoid lumps.
There is also chances for lumps while adding sugar, so make sure to stir well. Actually it may look as if it gets lumps but if you keep mashing, it will go off as you stir.
Substitutions & Variations
You can use low fat milk.
Skip cardamom, saffron and cashews to keep it pure white.
Adjust ghee according to your preference. You can just use 1-2 teaspoon of ghee, that's enough too.
Paal kesari stays good 5 hours in room temperature and couple of days in fridge. Serve paal kesari warm the best.
Recipe card
Paal Kesari Recipe | Milk Kesari
Ingredients
- ½ cup Sooji/ rava
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1.5 cup Milk
- 6 Cashews Optional
- 1 pinch Saffron Optional
- 1 cardamom powdered
- 3 tablespoon Ghee
Instructions
- Firstly, in 2 teaspoons of ghee, roast cashews and keep aside. Then roast rava with a teaspoon of ghee till nice aroma rises.
- After that, in a heavy bottomed vessel or a non stick pan preferably, boil milk. Then, add Roasted rava in a sprinkled way without forming any lumps, with constant stirring.
- Simmer the stove and cook furthermore, 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.
- Add ghee little by little and keep stirring. Finally add cashews and cardamom.
- Add all the ghee and keep cooking till ghee oozes out and gets thick. Switch off the flame.
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.
Daily Meals says
Milk Kesari looks delicious. Great entry!
sunita says
That's a great looking dessert...thanks for sending it over.
easycrafts says
super....kesar would be giving more flavour to kesari...
Asha says
Kesari Bhaat is my fave dessert. Looks delcious Raks!:)
Came here to check Sugian!
lakshmi says
yay yay - tutti frutti - as a kid yellow and green were my favourites. 🙂 - i used to grabhandfuls from the fridge without amma's knowledge
SMN says
hey this is my alltime fav i can eat at any time ..
Sirisha Kilambi says
mmmmmm....mouthwatering milk-kesari..........Nice one Raks 😉
Happy cook says
Delicious
Sia says
i like hint of pinapple chunks in my kesari baath:) wonderful entry...
RAKS KITCHEN says
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:))
Laavanya says
That looks very good. I've never tried Milk Kesari before... must've been creamy and delicous.
Kribha says
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.
TBC says
Very nice sweet for the event:-)
Rina says
Will love to try this.
Namratha says
Looks delicious Raks, colour is of course awesome! Will try it soon 🙂
Mansi Desai says
Nice one Raks! Sunita's house is gona be smelling of saffron for months now:)
Rajitha says
nice..tutti-frooti in kesari..what is not to love 🙂
Puspha says
Yummilicious!!! Kesari is my fav.
Sharmi says
very nice ingredients inside the kesari. very pretty and colorful too:)
Madhu says
Kesari bath looks very colourful love tuty fruty. Nice entry Rak's.
remya says
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remya says
I have tagged u for fantastic foue MEME..plz it asap...bye
RAKS KITCHEN says
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:))
Cynthia says
Yes, I like 🙂
ushaprashanth says
Hi!
Milk kesari looks delicious!! good entry for the event!
RAKS KITCHEN says
Thanx Usha and Cynthiya for your comments...
Lissie says
very innovative! tasty kesari.. very good entry!
Anonymous says
It was a great hit Raks...everyone appreciated me at my home....all credits goes to you...rocking rak's ...
Anonymous says
It was great hit Rak's...keep rocking...everyone appreciated me for this recipe...all credits goes to you...
cpt says
Eating the kesari I just made....all I can say is...YUMMYLICIOUS! Thanks for the recipe, Raks.
Saranya A says
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?
RAKS KITCHEN says
Keep stirring to avoid forming aadai. Hope this helps.
Ramya says
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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Justina Michael says
hi, i'm a starter in kitchen... can to tel wen to add that saffron??
RAKS KITCHEN says
You can add it along with milk. Soak in luke warm milk if possible. I think I forgot to add the point..
Justina Michael says
Thank yo 4 ur rece... it came out gud..
janu says
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..
sis v says
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?
anna poorani says
Can we add wheat rava?
Raks anand says
You can try but totally different recipe and taste.
Vandana .S. says
I love ur blog.. i m goin to try it today for tamil new year 🙂
tifa anvar says
When I'm into Indian cooking recipe ur blog is the one search first. Thnx for all great mouthwatering recipe
Swarna Lakshmi says
Mouth watering