Sooji Halwa
Super quick and easy semolina pudding made out of basic ingredients like semolina, ghee, sugar, saffron, cardamom and nuts within minutes with least amount of efforts.
Servings: 5
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup Ghee ½ cup if prefer less, but the proper amount would be ⅔ cup
- 1 cup Fine Semolina sooji, rava
- 1 cup Sugar ¾ for less sweetness
- 4 cup Whole Milk or 3 cup whole milk + 1 cup water
- few string Saffron
- ¼ tsp Cardamom Powder
- ¼ cup Chopped Unsalted Nuts cashew, pistachio, almonds
- 2 tbsp Raisins
Instructions
- Mix 1 cups of water and 3 cups of whole milk. Bring it to boil and keep it aside. You can use total 4 cups of milk if you prefer all milk instead.
- Heat ghee and saute semolina and few strings of saffron and cardamom powder on medium heat while stirring continuously.
- The semolina ghee mixture will be very dense in the beginning. As you keep cooking and stirring on medium heat, it will get light and fluffy. Keep cooking until it changes color a little and starts to fragrant. It cane take anywhere from 7-12 minutes.
- Once semolina is light and fluffy and deepens its color to golden, low the heat and slowly add hot milk water mixture. Add it slowly and very carefully while continuously stirring because there will be some splatters.
- Once all the liquid is added to semolina, keep stirring and cooking on medium heat until all the liquid is absorb/soaked up by semolina.
- Add sugar, chopped nuts and raisins to halwa and mix it very well. The halwa/sheero should get runny again due to sugar.
- Keep stirring and cooking on medium heat until all the liquid is absorb/soaked up by semolina again. Once you see ghee separating from the halwa/sheera, it is done!
- Take it off the stove and serve it hot/warm with dal, rice, curry, roti!
