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    Home » Indian Sweets

    Rava Sheera Recipe (Satyanarayan Prasad)

    Published: May 24, 2023 · Last Modified: May 24, 2023 by Kanan Patel / 6 Comments

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    3 bowls of rava sheera with banana and pooja stuff in the back.

    There is nothing quite like a bowl of homemade rava sheera, just like mom made! This is my favorite classic sheera recipe. It comes out deliciously sweet, soft, fluffy, and rich every time and is always sure to satisfy the sweet tooth.

    The same sheera (garnished with tulsi leaves and served with sliced bananas and pomegranate arils) is made for Satyanarayan Katha (puja) as a prasad. 

    3 bowls of rava sheera with banana and pooja stuff in the back.
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    • Satyanarayan Prasad Recipe
    • ❤️ You’ll Love This Sheera Recipe
    • 🧾 Ingredient Notes For Rava Sheera
    • 👩‍🍳 How To Make Sheera Recipe (Pics) 
    • 💭 Tips For BEST Sheera Recipe
    • 📖 Variations
    • 📋 Recipe Card
    • ⭐ Reviews

    Satyanarayan Prasad Recipe

    This sheera is offered to God as a prasadam while performing ‘Satyanarayan Katha’ or any other pooja like Devi pooja or Ganesh pooja.

    Elders in my house say that ‘Satyanarayan pooja is incomplete without sheera as a prasad.

    Basically, on pooja day, devotees keep fast for the whole day. After the pooja ends, it is distributed to devotees or followers and they break their fast by eating this. This sheera will give you an instant boost of energy, and lift your spirit after a day-long of fasting. 

    When this sheera recipe is made as Satyanarayan Prasad sheera then it is garnished with tulsi leaves (holy basil). Some serve sliced or chopped bananas along with sheera while some add mash the banana to the sheera like this banana sheera recipe. Also, prasad sheera is garnished with pomegranate arils if those are in season. 

    Not only on religious occasions but it is also made on a special occasions. I remember my mom making it on dad’s birthday.

    It is made as an accompaniment to the feast meal (for family or guests) on festivals like Diwali, Raksha Bandhan, Bhaidooj, and Holi.

    ❤️ You’ll Love This Sheera Recipe

    • Rava sheera requires only 4 main ingredients (plus a couple more for garnish & flavor).
    • Sheera recipe gets ready in 20 minutes only (from prep to serve).
    • You’ll just love its texture - Soft, smooth, and fluffy with the perfect amount of richness and sweetness.
    • I know it is loaded with calories, but it’s ok we eat it occasionally. And it doesn’t taste right when made low-calorie by reducing the ghee amount. A big NO-NO.
    • Kids and toddlers just love this. When my daughter was teething, I used to feed her this sheera as she doesn’t have to chew. Plus, it keeps her full and gets enough energy from ghee.
    • Scalable: You can double, or triple the amount as needed.

    🧾 Ingredient Notes For Rava Sheera

    Here is a pic of the ingredients you’ll need to make the rava sheera recipe.

    Sheera recipe ingredients in bowls and spoons with labels.
    • Rava (Semolina or Sooji): You’ll need a regular, coarse sooji variety (same as the one we use for upma). 
    • Ghee: Please do not reduce the amount of ghee. It adds nice flavor and richness. NO, you cannot make it vegan by using oil. It doesn’t taste good at all.
      • If you’re making it as a prasad sheera then you must use cow’s ghee.
    • Sugar: Regular white sugar is used.
    • Milk: Full-fat whole milk is highly recommended for a rich, creamy texture.
    • Nuts: Almonds and cashews are used.
    • Raisins: Golden raisins are used here in sheera recipe.
    • Cardamom: Crush the green cardamoms in mortar and pestle. Discard the pod and make powder out of the seeds. 
    • Optional: Many like to add freshly grated nutmeg. 

    👩‍🍳 How To Make Sheera Recipe (Pics) 

    1) Add ghee to a heavy bottom pan and turn the heat on to medium. Let the ghee get nice and hot.

    2) Meantime, take milk in a microwave-safe bowl and heat it until it just starts to come to a boil. Alternatively, you can heat the milk in a saucepan on the stovetop.

    Collage of 2 images showing ghee in a pan and milk in a cup.

    NOTE: Ghee must be hot, so check by adding a pinch of rava in the ghee and it should sizzle right away. That’s the right temperature of ghee. If rava settles at the bottom of the pan then the ghee is not hot enough.

    3) Once the ghee is hot, add semolina. You can see semolina is bubbling and becomes frothy from the sides. That’s perfect and crucial for fluffy texture and it happens when added to the hot ghee.

    4, 5) Keep stirring constantly and roast the semolina until it is very light golden brown in color. We don't want to burn or are not looking for dark golden color. 

    The hint is, ghee starts to separate from rava as it is roasted. Earlier all the ghee was absorbed by the unroasted semolina.

    Collage of 3 images showing adding semolina to ghee and roasting.

    6) Now add hot milk and stir with a spatula with another hand. Be careful as milk will froth up as you add.

    7) Once all milk is added the mixture becomes runny and liquidy.

    8) Add almonds, cashews, and raisins at this time.

    Collage of 3 images showing adding and mixing milk into roasted semolina.

    9) Keep stirring and cooking, the mixture will start to thicken in minutes. 

    10) Semolina will absorb all the liquid and becomes fluffy and the mixture becomes thick and leaves the sides of the pan.

    Collage of 2 images showing cooking sheera and it becomes thick.

    11) Add sugar and cardamom seeds powder.

    12) Mix, as the sugar melts the mixture becomes loose again.

    13) Keep stirring and cooking until it becomes thick and the ghee will ooze out from all sides. Sheera is ready, turn off the stove.   

    Collage of 3 images showing adding sugar, cardamom, mixing and cooking.

    💭 Tips For BEST Sheera Recipe

    • Adding rava (sooji) into hot ghee is a crucial step. This way semolina will puff up nicely and result in a fluffy texture. So never add rava into warm or room temperature ghee.
    • Roasting semolina is an important step to get the best texture of sheera. Roast with stirring continuously until they are light, fluffy, slightly golden, and aromatic.
    • Low-medium heat: During the entire sheera making process, keep the heat low-medium. If you have kept the heat medium to high, semolina will get color soon without being properly roasted.
    • Stir constantly: Whether it’s the semolina roasting process or after adding milk, or sugar you’ll need to stir constantly from start to finish. You can’t do other tasks simultaneously. Focus on making sheera only.
    • Milk temperature: Always add hot milk. Never add cold or room-temperature milk.

    📖 Variations

    • Rava Kesari: South Indian version where ingredients are the same but the method is different. 
    • Sooji halwa: It is similar to sheera but not the same. There are a few differences such as using fine semolina instead of coarse, using water instead of milk, adding saffron for flavor, etc.
    • Mango halwa: The base is the same as sheera with the addition of mango fruit.
    • Pineapple sheera: The base is rava sheera with fresh pineapple in it.
    Rava sheera served in white bowls and garnished with tulsi leaves.

    Check Out Other Classic Indian Sweets

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    • Besan ladoo
    • Shrikhand
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    • Kaju katli

    Did you try this rava sheera recipe? I’d love to hear about it! Leave a review in the comment section below.

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    Rava Sheera Recipe (Satyanarayan Prasad Recipe)

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    There is nothing quite like a bowl of homemade rava sheera. It comes out deliciously sweet, soft, fluffy, and rich every time and is always sure to satisfy the sweet tooth. The same sheera (garnished with tulsi leaves and served with sliced bananas and pomegranate arils) is made for Satyanarayan Katha (puja) as a prasad.
    Author: Kanan
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: Indian
    Calories: 449kcal
    Servings 4
    Prep Time 5 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 15 minutes minutes
    Total Time 20 minutes minutes
    US measuring cups are used (1 cup = 240 ml) See details

    Ingredients  

    • 1 ½ cup Milk Full-fat whole milk
    • ½ cup Ghee (clarified butter)
    • ½ cup Sooji (rava or semolina) Coarse
    • 5 Cashew nuts cut into halve
    • 5 Almonds cut into halve
    • 10 Raisins
    • ½ cup Sugar
    • ¼ teaspoon Green cardamom seeds powder
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    Instructions 

    • Add ghee to a heavy bottom pan and turn the heat on to medium. Let the ghee get nice and hot.
    • Meantime, take milk in a microwave-safe bowl and heat it until it just starts to come to a boil. Alternatively, you can heat the milk in a saucepan on the stovetop.
    • NOTE: Ghee must be hot, so check by adding a pinch of rava in the ghee and it should sizzle right away. That’s the right temperature of ghee. If rava settles at the bottom of the pan then the ghee is not hot enough.
    • Once the ghee is hot, add semolina. You can see semolina is bubbling and becomes frothy from the sides. That’s perfect and crucial for fluffy texture and it happens when added to the hot ghee.
    • Keep stirring constantly and roast the semolina until it is very light golden brown in color. We don’t want to burn or are not looking for dark golden color. The hint is, ghee starts to separate from semolina as it is roasted. Earlier all the ghee was absorbed by the unroasted semolina.
    • Now add hot milk and stir with a spatula with another hand. Be careful as milk will froth up as you add. Once all milk is added the mixture becomes runny and liquidy.
    • Add almonds, cashews, and raisins at this time.
    • Keep stirring and cooking, the mixture will start to thicken in minutes. Semolina will absorb all the liquid and becomes fluffy and the mixture becomes thick and leaves the sides of the pan.
    • Add sugar and cardamom seeds powder. Mix, as the sugar melts the mixture becomes loose again.
    • Keep stirring and cooking until it becomes thick and the ghee will ooze out from all sides. Sheera is ready, turn off the stove.

    Notes

    • Adding rava to hot ghee is a crucial step. This way semolina will puff up nicely and result in a fluffy texture. So never add rava into warm or room temperature ghee.
    • Roasting semolina is an important step to get the best texture of sheera. Roast with stirring continuously until they are light, fluffy, slightly golden, and aromatic.
    • Low-medium heat: During the entire sheera making process, keep the heat low-medium. If you have kept the heat medium to high, semolina will get color soon without being properly roasted.
    • Stir constantly: Whether it’s the semolina roasting process or after adding milk, or sugar you’ll need to stir constantly from start to finish. You can’t do other tasks simultaneously. Focus on making sheera only.
    • Milk temperature: Always add hot milk. Never add cold or room-temperature milk.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 449kcal | Carbohydrates: 47g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 36mg | Potassium: 218mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 148IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 122mg | Iron: 1mg
    *Nutrition information is a rough estimate for 1 serving
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    1. Sagar Nath

      May 27, 2018 at 11:11 pm

      Nice! Love to make in your style. Thanks!

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      • Kanan

        May 30, 2018 at 2:22 pm

        sure. give it a try

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