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    Home » Sweets & Desserts » Corn Rava Kesari with Palm Sugar, Dried Green Chana Sundal ~ Navratri Special Dishes

    Corn Rava Kesari with Palm Sugar, Dried Green Chana Sundal ~ Navratri Special Dishes

    Published: Oct 19, 2012 · Modified: Nov 5, 2020 by Srivalli · 7 Comments

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    For today's Navratri Pooja, it's the second day for Goddess Lakshmi. It has to be a Kesari, so I made a kesari with Corn Rava and Palm Sugar / Panang Kalkandu. Palm sugar can be used as an alternative to white sugar. Unless you are told that the kesari is made using Palm Sugar, you won't really find much difference in taste. PJ has a wonderful post on what Palm Sugar is all about.
    Since I have made Kesari with all possible grains/ingredients, seeing the corn rava got me thinking that I could make kesari with it and use Palm sugar instead of refined sugar.
    For the Sundal, we made with dried Green Channa, with simple tempering. Since today is Friday, Lord Ganesha is also invoked along with Goddess Lakshmi. To please Lord Ganesha, nothing can please him more than Kolukattai with Coconut purnam.
    So today's prasadam was Corn Rava Kesari with Palm Sugar, Green Chana Sundal and Kolukattai.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Corn Rava Kesari with Palm Sugar

    Ingredients Needed:

    Corn Rava - 1 cup
    Palm Sugar - 1 cup
    Water - 4 cups
    Cashew nuts - handful
    Ghee - 2 tsp

    How to make Kesari

    Pound the palm sugar and melt with enough water. Once melted, remove the scum if anything found. Keep it aside.

    Heat a pan with ghee with cashew nuts, then add the rava. Saute well. Add melted palm sugar to the pan and bring to boil.

    Simmer and cook till done.

    Notes:

    Pressure cooking the corn will make the task of cooking this easy. First I had cooked it directly, though the kesari got cooked well, it got dried up fast with the corn kernels getting dried up. So I had to microwave it for 10 mins with 1 cup water.

    So if you Pressure cook the corn kernels, this is very easy to get done.

    Dried Green Channa
    Greed Chana - 1 cup
    For Tempering
    Oil - 1 tsp
    Mustard Seeds, Urad dal - 1/4 tsp
    Green Chilies - 2 long
    Salt to taste
    Soak the dried green chana overnight and pressure cook till done.
    Then temper the boiled chana with the tempering ingredients.Navaratri Recipes

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    Corn Rava Kesari with Palm Sugar, Dried Green Chana Sundal ~ Navratri Special Dishes

    Occasion Navaratri
    Author Srivalli
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    1. Satya says

      October 19, 2012 at 11:28 am

      wow rave kaseri with corn meal ,its really a superb n healthy idea...thanks for sharing,halwa looks awesome

      Reply
    2. Usha says

      October 19, 2012 at 11:50 am

      Happy Navratri !! The kesari looks delicious. Have never used palm sugar, it sounds very interesting!!

      Reply
    3. Subhie Arun says

      October 19, 2012 at 1:22 pm

      happy navrathiri!..thats was healthy n superb idea!

      Reply
    4. divya says

      October 19, 2012 at 1:42 pm

      oh wow....yummy yummy...Very Tempting!

      Reply
    5. Hari Chandana P says

      October 19, 2012 at 4:01 pm

      Halwa looks simply awesome and tempting.. inviting clicks too

      Reply
    6. foodiliciousnan says

      October 27, 2012 at 4:12 am

      This was a wonderful twist Valli. I to recently bought corn rava and used it in place of the.usual. The change in flavour was a welcome.one. Just wondering, will we get corn floor if we.fine grind the.corn rava??

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    7. Srivalli says

      October 27, 2012 at 6:11 am

      Nandini, Yes I was happy seeing this rava. We get the corn flour that's ground from this in Nilgris. You can also do that yourself.

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