Oats Orange Kesari

Ingredients:
Oats (quick cooking) - 1 cup
Orange juice (fresh) - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp. (or as per taste)
Water - 1/2 cup
Orange essence - a drop
Orange/kesari color - 2 pinches
Cashewnuts - few
Ghee - 2.5 tsp.
Cardamom powder - 2 pinches

Method:
Heat 1 tsp. of ghee in a small pan and fry the cashews till golden colour. Keep aside.
Heat 1 tsp. of ghee and add the oats and saute till a nice aroma wafts out of the pan (3 to 4 minutes).
Add orange juice and mix well. Meanwhile in another small deep sauce pan, add water and sugar. Dissolve the sugar and orange colour and heat it.
Add this water to the oats and cook. When it becomes thick, add orange essence, cardmom powder, cashews along with ghee and mix. Also, add 1/2 tsp. of ghee and mix. When the oats leaves the side of pan, remove from heat and enjoy immediately.

Note:
The orange juice should be sweet and not sour. Add sugar according to taste. You can also skip the orange juice and continue preparing with water as plain oats kesari and increase the amount of sugar.

Sent off to "CWF-Oats" hosted by Priya and started by Kiran.

Posted in: Oats, Sweet