Seviyan Kheer/ Sev Ni Kheer/ Vermicelli Kheer
Seviyan Kheer/ Sev Ni Kheer/ Vermicelli Kheer is a traditional sweet dish made by cooking wheat vermicelli in milk and sugar to celebrate happy moments and festivals. It is flavored with nutmeg, cardamom powder and saffron. Nuts added gives crunch to every bite of kheer.
Servings 10 people
Ingredients
- 2 cup vermicelli wheat vermicelli
- 2 l full fat milk You can use low fat milk
- 1 cup sugar or more as per sweetness needed
- 1.5 tbsp ghee clarified butter
- 2 tsp nutmeg powder
- 2 tsp cardamom powder
- 1 tsp saffron strands
- 1/4 cup almonds blanched, skin removed and slivered
- 1 tbsp pistachio blanched, skin removed and slivered
Instructions
- Heat ghee/clarified butter in a big thick bottom pot on a medium heat.
- Once the ghee is melted, lower the heat and add broken vermicelli /seviyaan to it. Roast vermicelli on low heat till turns golden.
- The vermicelli will become golden in 2-4 minutes.
- Pour the milk over it and mix well. Cook the milk on medium heat. Continously stir the milk to avoid the milk and vermicelli from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
- The milk and vermicelli will start to boil after 8-10 minutes.
- Add sugar once the milk start to boiling. Mix well and cook till sugar gets dissolve and vermicelli softens.
- The vermicelli will start to float on the milk.
- Add the blanched and chopped almonds and pistachios to the milk. Mix well.
- Add nutmeg powder. Mix well.
- Add cardamom powder and mix well.
- Add saffron strands and mix well.
- Mix well and cook till the milk thickens.
- The vermicelli kheer is ready to serve.
- Serve the seviyan kheer/sev ni kheer/vermicelli kheer hot or chilled.
