Sheer Khorma
By: Helen Pitlick
Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 3:51am

Ingredients




1 liter whole Milk 
4 tablespoons sugar
6 seeds cardamom (Choti Ilaichi)
20 grams pistachios (Pista), 10 grams coconut (Khopra) (dried), chopped
25 grams almonds (Baadaam), chopped
1 gram raisins (Kishmish)
1/4 cup dried dates, chopped
1 handful vermicelli noodles, Semiya
1 teaspoon Coconut essence

Preparation

1 Wash the dry fruit and soak in a little milk for 3-4 hours. 2 In a heavy based pot add milk, sugar and cardamom seeds. 3 Simmer on low heat until it starts to thicken. 4 Add the vermicelli and continue cooking until the vermicelli softens. 5 Add the presoaked dry fruit and cook for 5 minutes. 6 Just before removing from heat add the rose water essence.

About


Sheer korma (or Sheer Khurma) is a vermicelli pudding prepared bycooked in celebration of Eid ul-Fitr in Muslim and Southeast Asian Countires. It is served as both breakfast and dessert. Sheer translates to "sweetened milk, while khurma refers to the dried dates .