Monday 5 May 2014

Banana Sheera - How to Prepare - recipe Inside



Festivals are the major part of religious families in our country. It is the time when we celebrate, enjoy and spend time with family in a full-fledged manner. When there is a festival, there arises the pooja and other things too. When pooja is existing, then even offerings to god is also existing and it’s the Hindu custom to prepare eatables and to give it as an offering to god. And one of the main offering or prasada which is done is the banana sheera. Let us learn how to make it in a best way today.

Ingredients required:
·         Banana – 1 medium (chop it into pieces)
·         Sugar – 1/3 cup
·         Ghee  – 3 tbs
·         Cashews – 8 (break it into pieces)
·         Boiling water – 1 cup
·         Raisins – ½ tbs
·         Sooji (rava) – ½ cup
·         Cardamom powder – a few pinch
Method of making:
1.      Take water and keep it for boiling in one pan.
2.      Take ghee in a pan and heat it. When the oil is hot, add cashew and raisins and fry it well.
3.      Remove the cashews and raisins from ghee and add sooji or rava to the ghee.
4.      Fry it well in a medium flame until a brownish color is obtained.
5.      Add the hot water to the pan with continuous stirring.
6.      Care should be taken so that there are no bubbles or lumps of rava after adding water so mash is well and stir it in a proper manner.
7.      Stirring is done in a medium flame until a dry mixture is obtained.
8.      Add sugar and banana now. Again the mixture becomes liquid like.
9.      Then mix it well till the mixture leaves the pan on sides and till the oozing out of ghee occurs.
10.  Then add cashew, raisin and cardamom and mix it thoroughly.
11.  Now the banana sheera is ready to serve as offering.
This sheera done as offering is very tasty and also is mouth-watering. Next festival, do not forget to give this as an offering!!!

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