Recipe 8 - Apple Kesari

Apple Kesari

Semolina & apple based sweet topped with chocolate sauce.

Kesari

Ingredients:

• 1 cup semolina (rava)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 apple
• 1 cup milk
• few cashews
• few raisins
• 2 teaspoons ghee
• water

Method:

• heat up a pan, add 1 cup semolina & a teaspoon ghee; set aside after roasting it a little
• cut the apple into small pieces, set aside 4-5 pieces
• crush the remaining in a mixer adding 1/4 cup water; filter the crushed apple through a cloth, squeeze it & extract the juice; you should have atleast 1 cup of apple juice now
• separately, heat up 1 cup milk in a pan
• then, add sugar & stir well until it gets dissolved
• then add the roasted semolina, 1 cup apple juice & stir well; add desired amount of water to aid cooking
• separately, saute few cashews & raisins in 2 teaspoons ghee & pour into the above once the liquids get evaporated

Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1/4 teaspoon milk
• a pinch of baking powder

Method:

• add 1 teaspoon ghee into a pan
• once heated, add 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence, 1/4 teaspoon milk & a pinch of baking powder and stir well

Integration

• pour the chocolate sauce on top of the kesari & serve hot/cold

Notes:

• please note that semolina absorbs water very quickly & if you don't catch up to it while stirring, you might find hard lumps formed