Wheat Flour Barfi

Ingredients:

1) Wheat Flour (Goduma Pindi)  = 1 Cup.
2) Sugar = 1Cup.
3) Water = 1/4 Cup.
4) Cardamom Powder (Yalakulu) = 1/2 Teaspoon.
5) Cashew Nuts (Jeedi Pappu) = 5- 6 Pieces.
7) Ghee = 1/2 Cup.

Method:


1) Take a wide pan add 1 Tbl spoon Ghee fry Cashew nuts till they turn to golden color and keep them aside in a bowl.
2) In the same pan add remaining Ghee, roast the Wheat flour on a medium flame, colour of wheat flour changes to little brownish, keep stirring continuously while roasting, you can switch off the stove when you smell the aroma in the kitchen.

3) Take a wide vessel add Sugar, Water and Cardamom Powder, mix them well and heat on a stove to make a thin syrup.
4) When you get a fine string form from the syrup prepared in above step, switch off stove. (you can observe fine thin string formation when you stretch the syrup between your fingers)
5) Mix the roasted Wheat Flour in the sugar syrup and mix well without forming any lumps.
6) Cook the wheat flour for about 10min and then switch off the stove.
7) Apply Ghee on a plate and spread the cooked wheat flour on the plate evenly and leave that for some time till that becomes cool.
8) Take a knife and cut into pieces in any shape you want

9) Finally garnish with fried Cashew nuts on the pieces.

Rawa Kesari

Ingredients:


1) Sooji Rawa (Upma Rawa) = 1Cup.
2) Sugar = 1 Cup.
3) Water = 1 Cup.
4) Milk = 1 1/2 Cup.
5) Cardamom Powder (Yalakulu) = 1/2 Tea Spoon.
6) Orange Food Colour = 1 Pinch.
7) Ghee = 3 Tbl Spoons.
8) Cashew Nuts(Jeedi Pappu)  = 7-8 Pieces.

Method:

1) Take a wide Pan add some Ghee and fry Cashew nuts in it and keep them in the bowl.
2) In the same Pan add Upma Rawa and roast it, slowly the colour of Rawa changes and you get nice aroma as it gets roasted (Do not over roast).
3) Transfer this roasted Upma Rawa in a plate then add sugar in the same plate and mix them well and keep aside.
4) In the same pan add Orange food colour, water, Milk, Cardamom Powder and boil once or twice.
5) Then add roasted rawa and Sugar mixture in the Milk and boiling water pan and mix well without forming any lumps and then put the lid on it and cook for 4-5 minutes or until the rawa gets cooked and then switch off the stove.
6) Then apply some Ghee on a plate and spread kesari (cooked Rawa) into plate.
7) Take a knife and cut into pieces in any shape you want.
8) And garnish with fried Cashew nuts.

Note: For preparing Kesari, better use non stick pan or heavy bottomed vessel