KARAJEEPA

Kids are on vacation, so wanted to try some evening snacks for kids... Thought of preparing halwa with bean flour, rava, sugar... But stock of ghee is very low in my home ... So I prepared this without ghee and served to everyone in home... Everyone begin to like this very much and asked me , what's the name of this sweet.... I am thinking what name to tell, because consistency not in halwa form, while am in deep thinking, brother told this sweets tastes fantastic and asked me what's this sweet name... I told him it is mix of halwa, Kesari etc, so you can keep whatever name you like... Then he asked me what are the ingredients I used, in tamil I told, Kadala maavu, Rava, jeeni, paal ( besan flour, semolina, sugar and milk... Immediately he named it KARAJEBA including first two letters of all.... I too liked this name very much, so named this sweet KARAJEBA.... This is story behind the name of this dish...

It is very eas to make in the evening time and can try this for guests instead of regular Kesari..

 

Ingredients 

Besan flour - 1 1/2 cup

Rava ( sooji) - 1/2 cup 

Sugar - 1 cup

Milk - 1 1/2 cup

Water - I cup

Cardamon - 2 

Salt - one small pinch

Ghee - use as per decision ( I just used three tsp), can add more ...

Method

Roast rava in 1 tsp of ghee, keep aside, then roast besan flour till golden brown in colour and keep aside. Make sugar syrub adding water, cardamon, colour ( optional) till reaches soft ball consistency... 

To the milk, add besan flour, rava, sugar syrub and mix everything well... May add ghee at this stage, keep on stirring till everything blended well and become thick...

Transfer this to the ghee greased plate and when cooled little, make shapes out of it and serve.

May add nuts of your choice...