Pineapple kesari

Ingredients :
Rava - 1.5 cup
Pineapple - 1 cup chopped ( leave the center ring as it is very hard )
Sugar - 1 and 3/4 cup
Cashews - 1/2 cup
Raisins -  few
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Yellow food color -  a pinch ( optional )
Water - 4.5 cup

Method :

1. Dry fry rava. I feel coarse or anything other than fine rava is easy to handle.
2. Fry cashews and raisins in ghee.
3. Add 4.5 cup of water in a pan and add chopped pineapple and let it boil for 10 minutes.
4. After 10 minutes add rava slowly into the boiling water and keep mixing so that no lumps are formed.
5. Let the rava cook and all the water is dried. This won't take long time.
6. Add sugar and mix well. Lumps might form here too, so keep mixing it.
7. When everything is again dry add fried cashews and raisins and leftover ghee.
8. Keep mixing.

I have tasted pineapple kesari in marriages, but never thot it would come out so well without pineapple essence. I was very happy with the outcome.

Enjoy the joy of cooking.