Happy New Year to all my readers! Hope everyone had a wonderful start. To celebrate this new year, with a sweet I prepared Sheera.
In this Sheera preparation, I used semolina/rava/sooji along with milk and ghee (clarified butter). It is a special sweet dish made for many occasions in India and is a delicious pudding to serve after any meal.
This is a quick and easy sweet recipe you can prepare within 20 minutes if you are craving for any sweet or if you have sudden guests.
Step by step pictures of making Sheera
Ingredients:
- Semolina/Rava/sooji -½ cup
- Ghee-3tbsp
- Milk-1cup
- Water-¾cup
- Sugar-¾ cup
- Cardamom power-1tsp
- Chopped nuts -¼cup (almonds, pistachio, cashew nuts)
Preparation:
In a saucepan, boil water and milk together for a couple of minutes. Turn off the flame and keep the pan aside.
Now take a non-stick pan, add 2tbsp of ghee and fry nuts. Take the fried nuts into a bowl and keep aside.
In the same pan add rava and roast on low flame for 5-7 minutes or until nice aroma comes/rava changes into light golden colour.
Then add the boiled water-milk liquid to the semolina and stir well without any lumps. Cover and cook for 5mintues on low flame till the liquid is absorbed by the rava.
After that add sugar and stir well. Cover again and cook till the sugar melts and mixture becomes thick or the mixture stops sticking to the walls of the pan.
Add the fried nuts along with cardamom powder and mix well.
Next, add the remaining ghee, mix well and turn off the flame.
Transfer the Sheera into a serving bowl and garnish with the remaining chopped nuts and enjoy it warm.
Check out my other sweet recipes
Note:
Here you can use milk only instead of water. Sweetness is perfect for me if you like you can add a little bit more.
You can serve it as cold or warm. But I prefer warm.
📖 Recipe
Sheera | Sooji ka Halwa | Rava Sheera
Ingredients
- Semolina/Rava/sooji -½ cup
- Ghee-3tbsp
- Milk-1cup
- Water-¾cup
- Sugar-¾ cup
- Cardamom power-1tsp
- Chopped nuts -¼cup almonds, pistachio, cashew nuts
Instructions
- In a saucepan, boil water and milk together for a couple of minutes. Turn off the flame and keep the pan aside.
- Now take a non-stick pan, add 2tbsp of ghee and fry nuts. Take the fried nuts into a bowl and keep aside.
- In the same pan add rava and roast on low flame for 5-7 minutes or until nice aroma comes/rava changes into light golden colour.
- Then add the boiled water-milk liquid to the semolina and stir well without any lumps. Cover and cook for 5mintues on low flame till the liquid is absorbed by the rava.
- After that add sugar and stir well. Cover again and cook till the sugar melts and mixture becomes thick or the mixture stops sticking to the walls of the pan.
- Add the fried nuts along with cardamom powder and mix well.
- Next, add the remaining ghee and turn off the flame.
- Transfer the Sheera into a serving bowl and garnish with the remaining chopped nuts and enjoy!
Notes
Sheera is one of the sweets that we can prepare instantly, looks delicious. I guess, I add a little less sugar.
Sooji sheera or halwa is one of the quickest and easiest Indian dessert you can prepare but it tastes phenomenal.
Delicious sheera, can have it any time of the day, especially when its hot. I even love the one made for offering to God. I use only milk to prepare it.
Yummy!! This is something that I love to cook form myself too.. though is a family favorite!! I make it using water, with milk shall try soon!!
Looks very tempting!! Love sheera, probably the easiest and comforting Indian dessert that can be whipped up quickly 🙂