SEMIA RAVA KESARI

A Simple & Easy Dessert, which can be done in minutes and apt for beginners who wish to  learn cooking

INGREDIENTS:
Semia/ Vermicelli - 1/2 cup
Rava/ Sooji - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 and 1/4 cup
Saffron - 5 strands (optional)
Cardamom - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 5
Almond/Badam - 3
Salt - a pinch
Ghee - 2 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp

METHOD:
1. Soak Saffron in a teaspoon of hot water and keep aside. 
2.Heat ghee in a thick bottomed tawa, add chopped badam and cashews and fry till golden brown and remove it.
3. In the same tawa add oil, rava, vermicelli and roast it for few minutes. No need for the browning.
4. In a pan, add 2 cups of water, allow to boil and add to the tawa little by little and mix well to avoid lumps, also add the soaked saffron and close with a lid and lower the flame.
5. In a minute, the water will be absorbed fully, add sugar, a pinch of salt and mix well.
6. It will become watery and then start to thicken. Mix with a ladle in regular intervals for 2 minutes.
7. Add cardamom and fried cashews and almonds and stir for a while and switch off the flame.
8. Tasty and Easy Semia Rava Kesari is ready.

9. Serve with little Ghee as topping.

Note:

• Adding Saffron is optional.
• Adding food colour doesn't make a change in taste. So, better to avoid it.
• Add sugar only after the water is absorbed fully, otherwise the recipe will become sticky.