Sooji sheera with banana

Ingredients

• ☐ ½ cup fine semolina (sooji or rava)
• ☐ ⅓ cup ghee
• ☐ ½ cup sugar
• ☐ 1½ cups milk, or half milk and half water
• ☐ 1 ripe banana, sliced
• ☐ ¼ tsp cardamom powder
• ☐ a few cashews and raisins

Method

1. Heat the milk in a pan and keep it hot.
2. Melt the ghee in a heavy kadhai. Fry the cashews and raisins briefly and set them aside.
3. Roast the semolina in the ghee on low heat, stirring, for 8 to 10 minutes, until it smells nutty and turns light golden.
4. Pour in the hot milk slowly, stirring all the time so no lumps form.
5. When the semolina has soaked up the milk, add the sugar and banana and stir until it leaves the sides of the pan.
6. Mix in the cardamom and the fried nuts. Place a tulsi leaf on the portion you offer.