easy sheera recipe | rava sheera recipe | sooji sheera | sooji ka sheera
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: Not specified
- Yield: 4 Servings
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: karnataka
Ingredients
for roasting:
- 2 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- 7 cashew / kaju (halves)
- 2 tbsp raisins / kishmish
- ½ cup rava / semolina / suji (coarse)
other ingredients:
- 1½ cup water
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup ghee / clarified butter
- 3 drops yellow food colour
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
Method
- firstly, in a pan add 2 tbsp ghee and roast 7 cashew, 2 tbsp raisins on low flame.
- once it turns golden brown, keep aside.
- in the remaining ghee add ½ cup rava and roast for 5 minutes on low flame. keep aside.
- in a large kadai get 1½ cup water to a rolling boil.
- add roasted rava slowly, stirring continuously.
- the rava will absorb all the water and turns a lump-free mixture.
- now add ½ cup sugar and continue to stir.
- sugar dissolves completely and gets absorbed by rava.
- further add ¼ cup ghee and 3 drops yellow food colour. adding food colour is completely optional.
- now mix well making sure everything is well combined.
- cover and simmer for 5 minutes making sure rava is cooked completely.
- further add roasted cashew, raisins and ½ tsp cardamom powder.
- mix well making sure everything is well combined.
- finally, enjoy sheera with khara bath or serve as prasada.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.