Instant pot Rava Kesari is a delicious sweet made with sugar,rava(semolina), cardamom seeds with a good amount of ghee(clarified butter).
This instant pot rava Kesari recipe is one of the quickest versions of sweet we can make when we have some guests at home. Instant pot rava sheera recipe needs less than 5 minutes to pressure cook.
What is the rava Kesari bath recipe?
Rava means semolina and Kesari is a kind of pudding. We add some orange color to make it colorful on the platter we call it Kesari powder in India. If you don’t want any artificial colors just add a big pinch of saffron while cooking. We can even make pineapple rava Kesari.
Every region will have its own version of sweet made with rava. This instant pot rava Kesari is a south Indian version, north call it as sooji halwa, some call it as Kesaribath. The amount of sugar, ghee will differ as per the family recipe. Hindi word sooji in Telugu means rava.
My husband’s aunt makes delicious rava Kesari with more than a 1/2 cup of ghee. The rava Kesari will be so glossy and you can have just 2 to 3 spoons. The amount of ghee and sugar will make you 2 spoons of rava Kesari a very happy tummy. Don’t worry I won’t use a half cup of ghee 
This instantpot rava Kesari I’m making with the natural orange color I picked up in amazon India during the last India trip.
How to make the best instant pot rava Kesari?
- To get the perfect rava Kesari the ratio of rava, sugar, ghee, and water matters the most.
- Roast the rava in ghee until it turns light brown.
- Add hot water to the rava and stirring it quickly will avoid lumps.
- You need to use the fine rava also called Bombay rava to make this instant pot rava Kesari recipe. If you are using any other rava please adjust the water, cooking time accordingly.
Step by step instant pot rava Kesari recipe
How to make Kesari?
Turn on the instant pot to ‘saute’ mode. Add 2 tablespoons of ghee. Add a few pieces of cashews and roast until golden brown.
Add raisins and wait till it fluffs a little.
Now add the rava and roast until the rava turns light brown. This is a very important step so don’t move away else the rava with get too roasted and the Kesari won’t taste good. Once roasted turn off the instant pot.
In the meantime boil 2 cups of water and keep it ready. I will add a few drops of orange color to the water and keep it ready. You can add few saffron strands as well at this stage. When the water comes to a rolling boil turn off the stove.
Add sugar with rava and mix it well. Add the water and stir it quickly. This will avoid the instant pot rava Kesari from forming lumps. Add 4 crushed cardamom seeds and mix them well. Some people make ravai Kesari with milk. So in case if you are using milk reduce the water quantity.
Turn on the instant pot to pressure cook/manual mode for 4 minutes, high pressure, and vent to sealing mode.
After 4 minutes do a natural release on instant pot and another 2 tablespoons of ghee and serve it hot.
What to do instant pot says burn
The burn instant pot sign is due to low water or too much heating for a long time. In the mid of the recipe if you get a burn sign and the pressure pin is not popped up, open the instant pot lid and add an extra half cup of water and mix it well and close the lid. The instant pot burn notice will go off. Make sure no food is stuck to the inner pot at the bottom. For any recipe when instant pot keeps saying burn, you can try this method by deglazing the pot.
Instant pot rava kesari
Melt in the mouth south Indian Rava Kesari recipe in the instant pot. How to avoid burn sign in the instant pot
Ingredients
- 1 cup rava
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups water
- 1-2 drops orange food color
- 3 numbers cardamom pods crushed
- 2 numbers cloves
- 3-4 tbsp ghee(clarified butter)
- 10 numbers cashew nut broken
- 10 numbers raisins
Instructions
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Turn on the instant pot to ‘saute’ mode. Add 2 tablespoons of ghee. Add a few pieces of cashews and roast until golden brown. Add raisins and wait till it fluffs a little.
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Now add the Rava and roast until the rava turns light brown. This is a very important step so don’t move away else the rava with get too roasted and the Kesari won’t taste good. Once roasted turn off the instant pot.
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In the meantime boil 2 cups of water and keep it ready. I will add a few drops of orange color to the water and keep it ready. You can add few saffron strands as well at this stage. When the water comes to a rolling boil turn off the stove.
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Add sugar with rava and mix it well. Add the water and stir it quickly. This will avoid the instant pot rava Kesari from forming lumps. Add 4 crushed cardamom seeds and mix them well.
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Turn on the instant pot to pressure cook/manual mode for 4 minutes, high pressure, and vent to sealing mode.
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After 4 minutes do a natural release and another 2 tablespoons of ghee and serve it hot.
Recipe Notes
- To get the perfect rava Kesari the ratio of rava, sugar, ghee, and water matters the most.
- Roast the rava in ghee until it turns light brown.
- Add hot water to the rava and stirring it quickly will avoid lumps.
- You need to use the fine rava also called Bombay rava to make this instant pot rava Kesari recipe. If you are using any other rava please adjust the water, cooking time accordingly.
How to natural release instant pot?
If you are an instant pot beginner you might wonder how to natural release instant pot? You don’t need to do anything. Just wait for the safety pin to pop down on its own this is called natural release in the instant pot.
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