- ▢ 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- ▢ 1 cup rava / semolina / suji (coarse)
- ▢ 1½ cup milk
- ▢ ¼ cup milk powder
- ▢ ¼ tsp cardamom powder
- ▢ ¼ tsp baking soda
for stuffing:
- ▢ ¼ tsp saffron food colour
- ▢ ¼ cup mix nuts powder
- ▢ 1 tbsp milk
for sugar syrup:
- ▢ 2 cup sugar
- ▢ 2 pod cardamom
- ▢ few thread saffron / kesar
- ▢ 2 cup water
- ▢ 1 tsp rose water
- ▢ 1 tsp lemon juice
- firstly, in a large vessel take 2 cup sugar, 2 pod cardamom, few thread saffron and 2 cup water.
- stir and dissolve sugar syrup completely.
- boil for 5 minutes or until the sugar syrup turns slightly sticky.
- now add 1 tsp rose water and 1 tsp lemon juice. lemon juice is added to prevent sugar syrup from crystalising.
- mix well, cover and keep sugar syrup aside.
rava sweet preparation:
- firstly, in a kadai heat 1 tsp ghee and roast 1 cup rava on low flame until it turns aromatic.
- now add 1½ cup milk and mix continuously.
- keeping the flame on medium, keep stirring until the rava absorbs the milk.
- the mixture will thicken and starts to separate from the pan.
- cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- after 10 minutes, transfer the mixture to a large bowl.
- add ¼ cup milk powder, ¼ tsp cardamom powder and ¼ tsp baking soda.
- squeeze and mix well until everything is well combined.
- form a smooth and soft dough. if the mixture seems dry, add a tsp of milk and knead.
- now take ¼ of the dough into a small bowl to prepare the stuffing.
- add ¼ tsp saffron food colour, ¼ cup mix nuts powder and 1 tbsp milk.
- mix well forming a smooth and soft stuffing dough. keep aside.
- pinch a small ball sized rava mixture and prepare a smooth ball.
- also prepare a small ball sized stuffing.
- now stuff the stuffing ball into the rava mixture.
- grease hands with ghee and prepare an oval-shaped or shape of your choice.
- deep fry the sweet in medium hot ghee or oil.
- keeping the flame on low, stir occasionally.
- fry until the rava sweet turns golden brown. drain off.
- transfer the fried doughnut into the hot sugar syrup.
- make sure the sugar syrup is coated well. cover and rest for 2 hours.
- finally, enjoy rava sweet or suji sweet or rosh bora hot or chilled.
