Sevaiyan Kheer
February 1, 2013

Vermicelli cooked with milk and nuts, served as a sweet dish.

Cuisine North Indian
Course Desserts
Serves 1
Method Pressure Cooker
Difficulty Easy
Cook Time 20  minutes
  • Cuisine North Indian
  • Course Desserts
  • Serves 1
  • Method Pressure Cooker
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Cook Time 20  minutes
Ingredients
semiya or vermicelli
1/2   cup
milk
1   cup
almonds
8-14  
raisins
3  
sugar as per taste
 
ghee or clarified butter
1/2   tablespoon
Instructions

1.  Soak almonds for 5-6 hours. Heat a pan on medium flame. Put vermicelli in pan and dry roast them until medium brown in color(make sure not to burn them).

2. Heat ghee in a cooker on medium to high flame. Once ghee is heated, turn the flame on medium flame. Pour milk, sugar, raisins and roasted vermicelli in cooker. Pressure cook it until one whistle comes. After that turn the flame on low to medium flame and cook for 1 minute.

3. Then remove cooker from heat and reduce the pressure. Peel off the skin of soaked almonds. Crush some of the almonds.

4. Put (crushed and uncrushed) both almonds in cooker and boil vermicelli on medium to high flame by stirring occasionally until kheer thickens. You can serve it cold or hot as per your taste.