How to make mango sheera

For roasting:

• 1 tbsp ghee/clarified butter
• 7-8 cashews or almonds
• ½ cup rava / semolina / suji (fine)
• Half cup mango puree
• Half cup diced mango

Other ingredients:

• 1½ cups hot water
• ¼ or ½ cup sugar
• 3 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
• ½ tsp cardamom powder

1. Dry roast the semolina first. Add a tablespoon of clarified butter in a pan and add half a cup of fine semolina. Mix together and dry roast the semolina at least for 7-8 minutes or until it starts to get light golden colour. Keep it stirring continuously so that the semolina gets roasted nice and evenly. While dry roasting semolina it is always a good idea not to use a non-stick pan as the coarse texture may damage your non-stick coating. So, to avoid that, it's always a good idea to use a stainless pan or aluminium pan.
   
   
2. Now put the semolina aside. Take another pan. Add 3 tablespoons of clarified butter. After the clarified butter looks nice and hot, add some cashew nuts and almonds. Cook them until they slightly change colour or get a light golden colour. Now add half a cup of diced mango. You can save a few pieces for garnishing. Mix and cook this for 3-4 minutes until you can see the mango chunks start melting. Now, in this add 1/4th cup of mango puree. This adds nice colour and texture to the Sheera. Again, cook this for 3-4 more minutes.
   
   
3. After that, add in the roasted semolina and mix. For each half a cup of semolina, add 1 and a half cups of hot water. The reason for adding hot water is we have roasted this semolina and also mixed it in with hot pulp, so the semolina is nice and hot and if we add cold water with hot semolina, then semolina gets that chewy texture, and it doesn't get fluffed up nicely. So, to retain it's nice and fluffy texture, we need to always add in hot water while making Sheera.
   
   
4. Now cover this up and let it cook for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, open the lid. Add in 1/4th cup of sugar, and a little bit of cardamom powder. Mix these. You will notice that after adding sugar, the Sheera has turned nice and juicy again.
   
   
5. Now again cover this and cook on low to medium heat for another 5-6 minutes. Now, open the lid. You will notice that it has got that perfect nice mango colour and awesome texture. And it's ready to eat now.