Sheera Recipe | Suji Ka Halwa | Sooji Halwa | Rava Sheera
Sheera is a popular Indian pudding dessert recipe with delicious flavor, ready in less than 20 minutes. Sheera Recipe or Sooji Ka Halwa is prepared using ghee, rava (sooji, semolina), sugar, and dried fruits & nuts of your choice. This Indian dessert is offered to God during Ganesh Chaturthi, Varalakshmi pooja, Navratri, Diwali, Ram Navami, Kanya puja, Makara Sankranti, Sai Guruvar, etc., in the form of naivedyam or prasad.
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 291kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup Ghee (can reduce to ¼ cup )
- 2 tablespoon Cashews, chopped
- 2 tablespoon Almonds chopped
- 1 tablespoon Raisins chopped
- ½ cup Semolina (sooji or rava or durum wheat)
- 1 ½ cups Water
- ½ cup Sugar
- ½ teaspoon Cardamom powder
Instructions
- In a pot, add water and heat it. Let the water come to a boil.1 ½ cups Water
- Meanwhile, in another pan on medium flame, heat ghee. To this, add cashews and almonds, and just when it starts becoming light golden, add raisins and saute for a few seconds.½ cup Ghee, 2 tablespoon Cashews, chopped, 2 tablespoon Almonds chopped, 1 tablespoon Raisins chopped
- Add sooji (semolina) and roast on medium flame until aromatic. Roasting sooji generally takes less than 3 minutes. I have roasted for just a minute or 2. The more you roast, the color of the final product changes. Keep stirring. Else, it will burn from the bottom. Check out the video here on making of authentic and traditional sheera halwa.½ cup Semolina
- Now add the hot water and keep stirring. Be careful as sooji is going to splutter when hot water is being added to it. Keep stirring until you see the water is absorbed completely.
- To the cooked suji, add sugar and mix well. The mixture may look gooey for a minute, but it will start becoming thick again. Cook until ghee leaves the side of the pan.½ cup Sugar
- Finally, add cardamom powder, mix, and switch off the flame.½ teaspoon Cardamom powder
- Serve and Enjoy! Also check out our popular halwa puri chana recipe.
Video
Notes
- To get the perfect temple-style sheera, always follow the ratio of ghee:semolina (suji, rava):sugar is 1: 1: 1 and 1.5 cups of water. But to cut down on fat, you can reduce ghee to ¼ cup in the recipe above, and the amount of water will vary depending on the type of semolina used.
- If you want a richer sheera, use milk instead of water or use half and half.
- You can vary the amount of dry fruits and nuts as desired.
- While pouring hot water, be careful as it is going to splutter.
- I use Bombay rava (a fine variety of sooji) while making sheera or sooji ka halwa.
Nutrition
Calories: 291kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 93mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 0.03IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg