Pineapple Kesari is a delicious, flavourful sweet made by boiling pineapple cubes and simmering it with rava, sugar & flavours. Pineapple Kesari is a great choice of sweet for breakfast, evening snack and quick to make too. Pineapple Kesari Recipe is explained in this post with step by step pictures.
I love kesari….be it rava kesari or milk kesari or even fruit kesari.I have tasted pineapple kesari twice but never tried it on my own. This time when I bought pineapple I tried pineapple kesari , I love pineapple flavour and the fruit very much so loved it to the core. I made it when we had guests at home and they too loved it.I made adjustments to my rava kesari recipe and tried this pineapple kesari which came out so good that I wanted to post and record it.
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Pineapple Kesari
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rava / sooji
- 1/3 cup pineapple chopped
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 and 1/2 cups water
- 1/2 tablespoon cashews finely chopped
- 2 teaspoon raisins
- a tiny pinch yellow food color
- 2 tablespoon + 2 teaspoon ghee
Instructions
- Heat a teaspoon of ghee and fry cashews first till slightly browned then add raisins and let it bubble up, transfer to bowl and set aside.
- Boil water and add the chopped pineapple pieces, let it cook in medium flame for 5mins till it becomes slightly soft.
- Add the food color and let it boil one one side.
- Meanwhile heat a teaspoon of ghee and roast rava till nice aroma wafts.
- Now add the boiling pineapple water mixture to rava. This is the stage where you have to be very careful take care not to form lumps even if it forms break down.
- Once you see rava is cooked then add sugar now it will start to loosen keep stirring continuously.
- Add 2 tablespoon ghee and keep stirring till the mixture comes together as a mass slightly thick.
- Now add the ghee fried cashews and raisins and switch off.
- Serve Pineapple Kesari hot / warm!
Notes
- If you want you can add pineapple essence but I didn't add as I loved the natural pineapple flavour itself. I didnt even add cardamom powder / kesar as I wanted full pineapple flavour. If you like you can add cardamom powder.
- Cook pineapple and then add it else it will be crunchy.
- Add sugar only after rava is cooked.
- I add 1.5 cups of water and boiled the pineapple mixture only for 5mins so the water quantity was not an issue for me. If you boil for more , water will evaporate and will become less which will not be the perfect measure to cook rava. So if you are doubtful measure water and then add it.
- Garnish with pineapple pieces, cashews and raisins.
- If you are adding yellow food color as powder then dissolve it in a teaspoon of water then add it, this is ensure even coloring. If you use liquid food color then you can add it directly.
Pineapple Kesari Recipe Step by Step
- Heat a teaspoon of ghee and fry cashews first till slightly browned then add raisins and let it bubble up, transfer to bowl and set aside.Boil water and add the chopped pineapple pieces, let it cook in medium flame for 5mins till it becomes slightly soft.
- Add the food color and let it boil one one side.Meanwhile heat a teaspoon of ghee and roast rava till nice aroma wafts. Now add the boiling pineapple water mixture to rava.This is the stage where you have to be very careful take care not to form lumps even if it forms break down.
- Once you see rava is cooked then add sugar now it will start to loosen keep stirring continuously.
- Add 2 tablespoon ghee and keep stirring till the mixture comes together as a mass slightly thick as shown below.Now add the ghee fried cashews and raisins and switch off.
Serve hot / warm!
Expert Tips
- If you want you can add pineapple essence but I didnt add as I loved the natural pineapple flavour itself.I didnt even add cardamom powder / kesar as I wanted full pineapple flavour.If you like you can add cardamom powder.
- Cook pineapple and then add it else it will be crunchy.
- Add sugar only after rava is cooked.
- I add 1.5 cups of water and boiled the pineapple mixture only for 5mins so the water quantity was not an issue for me.If you boil for more , water will evaporate and will become less which will not be the perfect measure to cook rava.So if you are doubftul measure water and then add it.
- Garnish with pineapple pieces,cashews and raisins.
- If you are adding yellow food color as powder then dissolve it in a teaspoon of water then add it, this is ensure even coloring. If you use liquid food color then you can add it directly.
esther
Wow…Me too like pineapple kesari very much. U R tempting me to try it today itself……
Deesingh
Yum yum yum!!!!
Malathi ganesh
akka…inviting pics..:-)
Tamilarasi Sasikumar
Looks Delicious.. Lovely presentation…
Sowmya Madhavan
Essence definitely enhances the flAvour..can try using it
Anu s kitchendelights
cute presentation sharmi..looks smooth and yummy.
Mandy Divakaran
looks yummy ill have to try this 🙂
Mandy Divakaran
Looks yummy 🙂
Priya Suresh
Somehow i dont like adding pineapple essence in kesari, delicious kesari definitely.
Kirubha Arunkumar
Tempting pictures..will try soon..��
Navya
My mom makes this. Yours looks as yummy as hers
Rasam
Kesari looks delicious.. I too am planning to post it soon!
andal ramesh
new to your blog..wonderful work….grt job….rock on…
Hema Latha
Hi sharmi….very delicious …. Let me know the glass bowl name which you used for stove top…am searching for that bowl in ikea… I did not found…
SHARMILEE J
The brand is borosil cook and store gourmet wares, check it online
Sunitha Anand
Hi Sharmilee, Im new to ur blog. You work is amazing. Have learnt few recipes and tried it, came out well. Thank you for such a wonderful effort. Will try this pineapple kesari too. Thanks again.
Mansu M
Wow super kesari bath. .n very good presentation.
Mansu M
Wow super kesari bath. .n very good presentation.