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Sheer Khurma Recipe is an Eid special sweet.Sheer Khurmaliterally means "milk with dates" in Urdu and is a festival vermicelli pudding prepared by Muslims all across the world. It is a traditional Muslim dessert for celebrations. 'Sheer' is Persian for milk and'Khurma' is Persian for dates. This dish is made from dried dates.
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About the recipe
This special sweet contains lots of milk, dry fruits and the main ingredient in the sheer khurma recipe is Seviyan which is an Urdu term for vermicelli. The sweet is incomplete without seviyan or vermicelli.
This special dish is served on the morning of Eid day in the family after the Eid prayer as breakfast, and throughout the day to all the visiting guests. The word is spelt sometimes as sheer kurma or sheer korma or sheer qorma but it is actually spelt as Sheer Khurma.
As soon as the month of Ramadan ends every Muslim family eagerly waits to make this dish and relish it during eid - ul- Fitr.
I have some more interesting desserts made on the blog which are good for festivals such as suji ka halwa, moong dal halwa and also many cake recipes to be made for different regional festivals.
Belonging toa Hyderabadi background I always love making this dessert and this is one of my favourite desserts during eid as haleem is a favourite dish during Ramadan.
Eid special dessert
Not only during Eid but I usually prefer preparing it during weekends too as my family loves to eat this delicious dessert. I suggest everyone make this recipe as this is a do try dish and I am sure would be loved by everyone.
Eid is incomplete without this sweet and it is a Hyderabadi special dish and Eid - ul- Fitr is always enjoyed by meeting everyone with warmth and having this sweet. I cannot imagine Eid without Sheer Khurma mutton dum biryani and chicken dum biryani.
It is very popular in Asian countries and is also a very rich Mughlai cuisine dessert. Apart from occasions, this dish is best when relished during winters as it gives much warmth to our body.
Once the dish is tasted we always feel like having it again and again and it is a favourite among the kids as it contains lots of milk.
I have been asked by many to share this recipe and I now thought of sharing this special Hyderabadi dessert recipe with all my readers. Here I have made sheer khurma with condensed milk to make the dessert very rich, thick and to bring out creamy taste to the sheer khurma.
Related Hyderabadi Desserts recipes or indian sweet recipes:
- Double ka Meetha
- fruit custard
This Sheer Khurma recipe or sheer korma dessert is made with vermicelli/seviyan/sewiyansauteed in ghee and then added to the thickened milk with dates, sugar and dry fruits.
Below are the detailed instructions on the special Eid recipe.
Step by step procedure with pictures
Slicing Dry Fruits For Sheer Khurma
- Slice the dry fruits after blanching or soaking them well. The dry fruits look good and taste good with fine slicing.
Making the dessert
- Take a saucepan, add ghee to it and heat it.
- add in some sliced almonds, sliced cashews into the same saucepan, add sliced pistachios. One can stir fry them altogether or separately.
- saute slightly until they turn into slight golden color, take them out and keep them aside. They take about 3 to 4 minutes to saute well. Do not make them too crispy and brown.
- Into the same pan, add ghee and heat it.
- Break the vermicelli and add into the heated ghee.
- lower the flame saute vermicelli/seviyan till it gets golden brown. Always stir-fry on low heat. On high heat they burn quickly.
- Take them out and keep the sauteed/fried vermicelli aside.
- You can saute dates if you wish to.
- In a separate vessel or cooking pot boil the milk. Boil the milk well or until 2-3 boils. Stir while boiling.
- Into the milk, add stir-fried vermicelli and let it cook for few seconds on sim flame till the vermicelli becomes soft. Do not overcook as they break down completely on overcooking.
- Add sugar as per sweetness and stir well.
- add condensed milk, add cardamom powder, stir it.
- Do not stir much else the vermicelli will not be visible.
- Taste it, add sugar if required.
- Add some fried almonds, fried cashews, fried pistachios.
- Switch off the flame.
- Serve hot sheer khurma in dessert bowls and garnish with ghee, dry fruits and dates and enjoy!!!!
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Recipe
Sheer Khurma Recipe, Sheer Korma
Asiya
Eid special Sheer Khurma Recipe made with vermicelli and milk.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins
Course Desserts
Cuisine Indian
Servings 5
Calories 250 kcal
Ingredients
- 1 litre milk
- 100 gms/1 cup broken vermicelli/seviyan
- 3 tablespoon ghee
- 1 cup/ 2 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon condensed milk/milkmaid
- 8-9 vertically sliced almonds
- 8-9 vertically sliced cashewnuts
- 8-9 vertically sliced pistachios
- 5-6 deseeded chopped dates/khajoor
- ½ teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions
How To Slice Dry Fruits For Sheer Khurma
Inorder to slice the almonds, soak them in water or boil them in water then peel off the skin and slice the almonds.
Boil the cashewnuts and slice them .
Similarly pista or pistachios can be boiled and sliced.
This way the dry fruits can be chopped easily.
How To Make Sheer Khurma
Take a sauce pan, add ghee to it and heat it.
Break the vermicelli and add into the heated ghee, on sim flame saute vermicelli/seviyan till it gets golden brown.
Stirring is important while we saute them.
Keep the sauteed / fried vermicelli aside.
If there is excess ghee then strain the fried vermicelli.
In the same sauce pan, add ghee, add sliced almonds and saute slightly and keep aside.
Add sliced cashews into the same sauce pan, saute slightly and keep aside .
Saute pistachios in ghee as well and keep aside.
You can saute dates if you wish to.
In a separate vessel or cooking pot boil the milk.
Into the milk, add fried vermicelli and let it cook for few seconds on sim flame till the vermicelli becomes soft.
See AlsoEasy Palak Paneer RecipeAdd sugar, add condensed milk as well and cook for few minutes.
Add cardamom powder, stir it.
Do not stir much else the vermicelli will not be visible.
Taste it, add sugar if required.
Add fried almonds,fried cashews, fried pistachios.
Switch off the flame.
Serve hot sheer khurma in dessert bowls and garnish with ghee, dry fruits and dates and enjoy!!!!
Notes
- We get seviyan from the market which is specially used for making this dessert or you can use vermicelli which is usually available.
- But the real taste comes from using specially made sheer khurma vermicelli.
- The real taste too comes out if pure ghee with wonderful fragrance is used.
- Add rose water drops if you wish to in the finishing dish as an optional ingredient and you could also add raisins too and many other dry fruits.
- While adding seviyan do not add it at once. Add them gradually and check the thickness. If the thickness is what you desired for then do not add more vermicelli else the sweet would thicken totally.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Sheer Khurma Recipe, Sheer Korma
Amount Per Serving
Calories 250Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Fat 9g14%
Saturated Fat 6g38%
Cholesterol 23mg8%
Sodium 1mg0%
Potassium 3mg0%
Carbohydrates 1g0%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 1g1%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 1IU0%
Vitamin C 1mg1%
Calcium 1mg0%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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asiya
Thank u so much Maria...Do try them and would love to get feedback on them...
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Khuldin Raye
Now I knw y my sheerkhurma thickened last time. Well pointed out. Will make again.. thanks a lot...
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asiya
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