Banana Sheera Recipe - Sweet Banana Halwa/ Pudding
The Banana Sheera Recipe, also known as Sweet Banana Pudding, is a luscious sweet dish crafted from semolina and chopped bananas. The pudding is further enriched with roasted cashew nuts and raisins in ghee. While commonly referred to as "Sheera" in Maharashtra, it goes by different names like "sajjige," "sooji halwa," etc., in various other languages. Key ingredients across these dishes typically include semolina, sugar, ghee, and milk, with variations in flavor.
Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 25 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
- 2 Ripe Bananas, chopped
- 1 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds
- 1 cup Sooji (Semolina/ Rava)
- 2 cups Milk
- 1/2 cup Hot water
- 1/4 cup Jaggery
- 1/4 cup Ghee, for toasting
- 10 Cashew nuts
- 10 Sultana Raisins
- 4 Saffron strands
To begin making the Banana Sheera Recipe toast the semolina on a flat tawa over a medium heat. Toast till it becomes light brown.
Heat a saucepan with milk, jaggery, water, cardamom, chopped bananas. Allow it boil and add the toasted semolina and keep mixing to create no lumps. Switch off the heat and keep it covered.
In another pan add the ghee and once it heated add the cashew nuts and raisins and roast them till the raisins bulge.
Add this hot ghee with nuts and raisins into the semolina mixture and mix well.
Serve the Banana Sheera Recipe can be served along with a spicy upma which goes as a great combination for your morning breakfast.
Keyword Banana Sheera Recipe - Sweet Banana Halwa/ Pudding