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

  1. firstly, in a pan add 2 tbsp ghee and roast 7 cashew, 2 tbsp raisins on low flame.
  2. once it turns golden brown, keep aside.
  3. in the remaining ghee add ½ cup rava and roast for 5 minutes on low flame. keep aside.
  4. in a large kadai get 1½ cup water to a rolling boil.
  5. add roasted rava slowly, stirring continuously.
  6. the rava will absorb all the water and turns a lump-free mixture.
  7. now add ½ cup sugar and continue to stir.
  8. sugar dissolves completely and gets absorbed by rava.
  9. further add ¼ cup ghee and 3 drops yellow food colour. adding food colour is completely optional.
  10. now mix well making sure everything is well combined.
  11. cover and simmer for 5 minutes making sure rava is cooked completely.
  12. further add roasted cashew, raisins and ½ tsp cardamom powder.
  13. mix well making sure everything is well combined.
  14. 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.