Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, pineapple kesari bath recipe | pineapple sheera | pineapple rava kesari is a vegetarian south india sweet made with ghee / clarified butter, cashew, and raisins in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 6 Servings
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: south india
Ingredients
for roasting:
- 1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- 10 cashew (halves)
- 2 tbsp raisins
for sheera:
- 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- 1 cup rava / semolina / suji (coarse)
- 1 cup pineapple (chopped)
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 water
- 3 drops yellow food colour
- ½ cup ghee / clarified butter
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
Method
- firstly, in a pan heat 1 tbsp ghee and add 10 cashew, 2 tbsp raisins.
- roast on low flame until they turn golden brown. keep aside.
- in the same ghee, add 1 cup rava and roast well.
- roast for at least 5 minutes or until it turns aromatic. keep aside.
- in a large kadai heat 1 tsp ghee and add 1 cup pineapple, chopped.
- saute for 3 minutes or until it turns aromatic.
- now add ¼ cup sugar, 3 cup water and mix well. add more sugar if the pineapple is sour.
- cover and boil for 3 minutes or until the pineapple softens.
- add in roasted rava and stir continuously.
- stir until the rava absorbs all the water without forming any lumps.
- add ¾ cup sugar, 3 drops yellow food colour and mix until the sugar melts.
- further add ½ cup ghee and mix until the ghee is well absorbed.
- cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until everything is well cooked.
- now add roasted cashew, raisins and ¼ tsp cardamom powder. mix well.
- finally, enjoy pineapple sheera or pineapple kesari bath garnished with nuts.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
