Kesari Bhaat Recipe
Kesari Bhaat Recipe
Cuisine: RajasthaniKesari Bhaat Recipe: Kesari Bhaat is a sweet saffron-flavored rice dish made with ghee, sugar, saffron, and dry fruits. It’s a popular dessert in South Indian cuisine.
Ingredients
1 tblsp cashewnuts
1 tblsp raisins
saffron few strands
1 cup basmati rice
1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
1 tblsp pure ghee
1/2 cup sugar
25 gms sugar crystals
Directions
- Soak rice for half an hour.
- Heat up ghee in a pan,
- Fry raisins and cashewnuts,
- Remove and keep aside.
- In the same ghee mix in rice
- And stir fry till rice starts separating.
- Dissolve saffron in warm water and keep aside.
- Mix in 11/2 cup of boiling water to the rice
- And mix in saffron water and let it cook.
- When half done mix in sugar
- And continue to stir fry till all the water has been absorbed and the rice is cooked.
- Finally mix in the cardamom powder
- And decorate it with fried dry fruits and sugar crystals.
- Serve hot.
