Sheer Khurma | Eid Special Recipe
End of Ramadan celebrations are never complete without a bowl of Sheer Khurma. A very simple, albeit flavorful milk broth, this dish features ghee roasted seviyan and dry fruits cooked in reduced milk. While most people like it warm, I prefer the sheer khurma chilled. When refrigerated, it becomes denser and IMHO more flavorful.
Here’s a quick and easy story by story recipe of my mom’s style sheer khurma
Step 1: Preparation
I usually do the basic preparations one day in advance. This involves soaking all the dry fruits – almonds, pistachios, cashews, dry dates (and basically anything else you want to add). Once they have soaked for a few hours (I soak them overnight), and softened, they are ready to get peeled and chopped.
Step 2: Cooking
On the morning of Eid, I have all my chopped dry fruits ready along with all the other ingredients, ready to get roasted and mixed into a creamy bowl of Sheerkhurma.
Although the process is really simple, it can be a little time consuming to make wait for the milk to reduce, constantly stirring it to make sure it doesn’t burn. I have had an instance or two where the milk was burnt, but luckily I managed to revive it in time.
Start by adding milk to a pan.
While the milk is boiling, roast the seviyan and dry fruits.
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Sheer Khurma
Ingredients
- 1 L fresh milk
- 1 tin condensed milk
- 1 packet vermicelli (seviyan)
- 100 g blanched and chopped almonds
- 100 g chopped pistachios
- 100 g chopped cashews
- 50 g soaked dry dates
- 2 tbsp ghee (divided)
Instructions
- Soak almonds, pistachios and dry dates overnight or until softened
- Chop all the dry fruits into slits
- Heat milk in a pan and bring to a boiil
- While the milk is boiling, head ghee in a wok
- Add chopped almonds, pistachios and cashews to the wok and fry until fragrant
- Set aside on a plate
- In the same wok add another tbsp of ghee
- Break vermicelli into small pieces, add to the wok and fry until fragrant
- Set aside on a plate
- Add condensed milk to the boiling milk and mix well
- Add fried dry fruits to milk
- Add chopped dates to milk
- Add fried vermicelli to milk
- Bring milk to a boil
- Keep stirring every 2 minutes until vermicelli has softened
- Stir until mixture thickens to your preferred consistency
- Serve warm or chilled in a bowl or glass
