Bombay rava or ravva or rawa or sooji, is a durum wheat product and a form of

semolina Semolina is coarsely milled durum wheat mainly used in making couscous, and sweet puddings. The term semolina is also used to designate coarse millings of other varieties of wheat, and sometimes other grains (such as rice or corn) as well. Ety ...

. Rava is made by grinding husked wheat and is used in

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n cuisine to make savoury dishes such as

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, upma, khichdis. There are also sweet dishes made from it, take for example rava ladoo, and sooji halwa in North Indian cuisine which is also known as rava kesari/ kesari bath in

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. There is another type of

(rava) known as ''chamba rava'', which is a byproduct obtained while milling for

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, Bombay rava is actually made of

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, and hence it is finer.

Process

Rava may be described as the residues of milled material, after the flour is ground in a flour mill (chakki). It is passed through a fine mesh till flour and rava are separated.

Usage

Bombay rava is used in

to make upma. It is also used as an ingredient in some varieties of

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, especially the ''rava dosa''.

References

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