- Serves
- 6
- Portion
- 100 ml
- Time
- Cook 25 min
- Texture
- Soft
- Season
- MonsoonAugust
- Dosha
- Vata
- Pitta
- Kapha
Vata-pacifying
Ingredients
What you need
| Done | Ingredient | Household measure | Quantity (6 servings) | Café batch ×5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat vermicelli (seviyan) | ¾ cup broken vermicelli | 60 g | 300 g | |
| Ghee (cow) | 1 tsp | 5 g | 25 g | |
| Cow's milk, whole | 3¾ cups | 900 ml | 4500 ml | |
| Dates, seedless | 6–7 seedless, pureed | 50 g | 250 g | |
| Mishri / sugar | 1½ tbsp | 20 g | 100 g | |
| Green cardamom | ¼ tsp | 1 g | 5 g | |
| Almonds | 8, slivered | 10 g | 50 g |
Method
How to cook it
Step 1: Roast seviyan in ghee 3 minutes until golden.
Step 2: Boil milk and reduce 10 minutes.
Step 3: Add seviyan; cook 8 minutes until soft.
Step 4: Blend dates with 2 tbsp milk; stir in with mishri; simmer 2 minutes.
Step 5: Add cardamom and almonds.
Nutrition
Per serving, estimated
187kcal
Energy
6.4g
Protein
7.5g
Fat
24.7g
Carbohydrate
1.1g
Fibre
0g
Salt
Where the energy comes from
Protein and carbohydrate × 4 kcal/g, fat × 9 kcal/g
Estimated from IFCT 2017 / USDA composition tables; not for clinical use.
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