Pineapple Kesari

Ingredients:

Sooji (Godhuma rava) - 1/2 cup

Pine apple chunks - 3/4 cup

Sugar - 3/4 cup

Water - 1 1/2 cup

Elachi powder - pinch

Yellow Food color - 2 drops (optional)

Cashews - 10

Raisins - 6

Ghee - 1-2 tbsp

Procedure:

1. Take a frying pan, heat 1/2 tbsp ghee, add cashews and raisins one by one until they turn to golden brown. Remove them in to a bowl and set aside.
2. In the same pan, add sooji and roast until it slightly alters its color or until nice aroma comes out. Transfer roasted sooji in to another bowl and set aside.
3. Take a wide pan, add water and heat it. When water is boiling, add pineapple chunks and let them boil for few minutes (add food color at this stage if required).
4. Add roasted rava slowly in to boiling water and stir well without forming any lumps.
5. One the rava is cooked, add sugar, elachi powder and cook for few more minutes until the desired consistency is attained.
6. Finally add roasted cashews, raisins, remaining ghee and stir well.