Meethi Seviyan | Sweet Vermicelli

This Meethi Seviyan is a kind of distinctive candy dishes which is made with complete wheat vermicelli (seviyan), milk, sugar, ghee and dry fruits. It’s a dry variation, which can be common as a dessert, throughout Eid festivities. There’s completely no fuss in making this vegetarian dish. Merely simmer the seviyan with the remaining elements till it turns into tender and completely cooked. Improve its richness by including extra dry fruits to it.

Extra on this recipe

I really feel a wave of nostalgia at any time when I put together this Meethi Seviyan, because it jogs my memory of the candy recollections from childhood when my mom used to make it with milk. We regularly loved it as a pleasant night snack, nevertheless it can be served as a dessert after meals.

On this Candy Vermicelli recipe, I’ve opted for milk, however you may alternatively cook dinner the seviyan with water. I’ve used pre-roasted skinny complete wheat vermicelli, additional frying it in ghee for a good browning. Be at liberty so as to add your selection of nuts and dry fruits.

To boost the flavour of Meethi Seviyan, I’ve included milk powder, which provides richness to the dessert. Nevertheless, omitting the milk powder can be an possibility if most popular.

This dry variation of Candy Vermicelli is a fast dessert that may be ready in below 20 minutes, making it good for Eid celebrations and different festive events. Moreover this recipe, there are a number of different candy dishes that includes seviyan that I take pleasure in, together with the next:

Step-by-Step Information

Find out how to make Meethi Seviyan

Preparation

1. Firstly, hold all of the elements prepared for the seviyan. Break the seviyan and hold apart.

2. Chop the dry fruits and place apart.

Making Meethi Seviyan

3. Warmth a pan after which add 1 tablespoon ghee.

4. Let the ghee soften. Then, add 1 cup damaged seviyan.

5. On low to medium warmth, with frequent stirrings, roast the seviyan until it turns into golden. Since I used pre roasted seviyan, I didn’t need to roast it a lot. Nevertheless, should you use seviyan which isn’t roasted, then you’ll need to roast for some extra time.

6. Then, add all of the chopped dry fruits and raisins.

7. Stir properly.

8. Decrease the warmth and pour 2 cups milk. As an alternative of milk, you too can add water.

9. Stir and blend very properly. Then, proceed to stir for two to three minutes.

10. Now, add ¼ cup sugar.

11. Preserve stirring the combination.

12. Add ¼ cup milk powder. In case you do not need milk powder, then skip it.

13. Combine once more.

14. Sprinkle ½ teaspoon cardamom powder and stir properly.

15. The combination will begin thickening and the seviyan may even start to soak up milk. When all of the milk has been absorbed, change off the warmth.

16.  Serve Meethi Seviyan sizzling, heat or chilled. You may even garnish with some slivered or sliced dry fruits whereas serving.

About vermicelli

Seviyan or vermicelli is a class of extraordinarily skinny noodles that are common in India in addition to different elements of Asia and the Center East. Different sorts, some resembling to a pasta, could also be frequent within the USA, UK, Italy, Latin America, and so forth.

In India, vermicelli has many culinary makes use of that vary from salted and savory to candy, identical to this Meethi Seviyan. It’s also often known as semiyan in Hindi and has many different regional names like semiya (Malayalam and Tamil), sevai (Tamil), seviyun (Sindhi), shavige (Kannada), shemai (Bengali), simei (Odiya), sev (Gujarati), shevaya (Marathi), and so forth.

Vermicelli can be categorized in response to what they’re fabricated from – like you’ve got rice seviyan, wheat seviyan, and so forth. Some of the well-known savory dishes made with vermicelli is that this Semiya Upma which additionally has spices, lentils, a whole lot of greens and cooked in water until all of it’s absorbed by the vermicelli.

One other beloved and traditional Indian summer time drink cum dessert is the Falooda, the place rice or wheat vermicelli can be utilized as a substitute for the standard falooda sev, if not out there. Different variations of the identical embrace this Mango Falooda, Kesar Pista Falooda and Kulfi Falooda.

Skilled Ideas

1. As I used pre roasted seviyan, I didn’t need to roast it a lot. Nevertheless, if you’re utilizing seviyan which isn’t roasted, you’ll have to roast it for extra time, until it turns into golden.
2. Let the seviyan soak up the milk and switch dry. Or else, the dish would style extra like a kheer. For a extra kheerish consistency, add extra milk.
3. You may flip off the warmth as quickly because the milk is absorbed by the seviyan. In any other case, the vermicelli will style dry.
4. You may cook dinner the seviyan in water, as a substitute of milk.
5. Skip the milk powder, should you don’t have it.
6. You may add your selection of nuts and dry fruits. Add extra, should you want to.
7. This recipe can simply be scaled to make a bigger batch.

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This Meethi Seviyan recipe from the archives was first printed in February 2016. It has been up to date and republished in March 2024.