Banana and Semolina Pudding (Sheera)

Girl from India's Note:

I am calling this dish a pudding for want of a better equivalent to the word sheera. This is definitely a dish you have to try. A dessert or a tea time filler.

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 cup fine semolina
• 2 cups milk or 2 cups half-and-half (Milk and water)
• 2 small ripe bananas , mashed
• 1 cup sugar (or to taste- I use less around 3/4th cup)
• ½ cup raisins
• 3 cardamom powder
• 3 tablespoons clarified butter (ghee, cannot substitute this with anything else in my humble opinion)

Directions:

1. Roast the semolina in the clarified butter for 10 mins till golden brown.
2. Then add 2 cups of milk/ half and half.
3. When cooked add the mashed bananas and the sugar.
4. Then when the mixture is almost dry, add the cardamoms and raisins.
5. Serve hot or cold.

Reviews

[Pets'R'us]

We like semolina pudding and my husband loves bananas...so I had to make this recipe. Followed exactly, only added some toasted slivered almonds when I served it. Hot or cold this is good! Thanks for posting this Fay!

[Charishma_Ramchandani]

I made this for a tea time snack alongwith puris this evening. Mmmmm....this tastes so good! I love the banana flavour in this, though I must admit, I'm not a huge banana fan and had never tried it in halwa, so I was a little afraid to try this dessert, but I'm so glad I did because now I know how yummy this really is. I did not add any raisins in this. Also, I used about 7 green cardamoms{powdered}. I used fresh milk for this and not half-and-half, ghee{no substitutes} and 1 cup sugar. Everyone really loved digging into this. I'll make this again when we buy bananas! Thanks, Fay for a good one!

[GRECORICAN]

Wow this tasted so, so good, but I think I may not have cooked it right, but it still tasted great!!!! Wasn't sure how much cardamom, 3 pods/teaspoons ground, so I added a few dashes of ground and I had no raisings but it tasted great. Will definitely make again. Thank you.