Pineapple Kesari | Annachi pazha kesari | How to make Pineapple Kesari - Naughty Little BEES Kitchen

We all love to eat sweets and kesari is one of the default sweet we can easily make for any neivedhyams or any occasions.Its the easy and simple recipe which can get ready with few ingredients and takes very less time to prepare.We can make plenty of varieties to make your kesari rich like Mango Kesari,Pineapple Kesari,Mixed fruit Kesari. In my family this recipe got big hit and they all enjoyed the taste of the recipe til last bite.

Dish Name: Pineapple Kesari      Preparation Time: 25 minutes

Cuisine:South-Indian                 Serves: 3-4 people

Ingredients needed

Pineapple(finely chopped)-1Cup*

Sooji/Rava-3/4Cup

Sugar-1.5Cup

Water-2Cups+1/4Cup

Cardamom Powder-1/4tsp

Ghee-3tbsp

To Temper

Ghee-1tbsp

Cashews-6

Raisins-few

*1Cup-240ml

Preparation

1. Heat kadai with 1tbsp of ghee and dry cashews and raisins nicely.and keep it aside in a plate
   
2. Roast the Sooji/Rava with the remaining ghee until nice aroma comes.Keep this also aside in the plate
   
3. Add water and allow it to boil
   
4. When water starts to roil boil,keep the flame low add sooji slowly and mix it well together without any lumps.Mix it well till all the water absorbed by sooji
   
5. Add sugar to the sooji and mix it well. Sugar also starts leaving the water
   
6. You can add finely chopped pineapple and close it, allow to cook.Keep stirring in regular intervals to avoid burning
   
7. You can add yellow food color in this stage but i added turmeric powder instead of food color
   
8. Add cardamom powder to this
   
9. Allow to cook for 10 more minutes and add fried cashews and raisins 
   
10. Pineapple kesari is ready 
    

Notes

1. Add Sooji slowly to the boiling water and mix it without any lumps, If lumps formed then it will spoil the recipe
2. You can add pineapple paste instead of finely chopped pineapple