Aval Kesari Recipe – Poha Sheera Recipe
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Aval Kesari Recipe – Poha Sheera
January 4, 2016 By Radhika 3 Comments
Wishing you all a very happy New Year. Hope you all have a fabulous year ahead and all your wishes and aspirations come true. Aval Kesari Recipe – Poha Sheera Recipe with step by step photos. It is an easy sweet made mostly during Navratri Festival and Krishna Jayanthi. It takes very little time and expertise to make this quick and easy kesari recipe.
I simply love the grainy texture of it and next to the rava kesari this is made often at home whenever the sweet bug bites us. Here I have used the white colored thicker variety of Aval (poha) to make the kesari but you can also use the thinner variety and if color is not an issue for you you can also…
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