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Tikhat Sheera

The savoury sheera — rava with mustard seed, curry leaf and onion, not sugar.

01 Scale

batches ×1

Start to eat—

Actually you—

Pans—

Bowls3

Ingredients

As written

¼ tsptoopतूप · घी

1 cupravaरवा · सूजी

—oil

¼ tsprai — mustard seedsमोहरी · राई

4 leaveskadipatta — curry leavesकढीपत्ता · कढ़ी पत्ता

1chillies

halfonion, small dicedकांदा · प्याज़

¼ tspturmericहळद · हल्दी

⅛ tsphinga — asafoetidaहिंग · हींग

3 cupswater, for 1 cup ravaपाणी · पानी

½ tspsaltमीठ · नमक

¼ tspsugarसाखर · चीनी

—cilantroकोथिंबीर · धनिया

—limeलिंबू · नींबू

Mise en place

All of this before the heat goes on

1The rava

¼ tsptoopतूप · घी

1 cupravaरवा · सूजी

2The phodni

—oil

¼ tsprai — mustard seedsमोहरी · राई

4 leaveskadipatta — curry leavesकढीपत्ता · कढ़ी पत्ता

1chillies

halfonion, small dicedकांदा · प्याज़

¼ tspturmericहळद · हल्दी

⅛ tsphinga — asafoetidaहिंग · हींग

3The rest

3 cupswater, for 1 cup ravaपाणी · पानी

½ tspsaltमीठ · नमक

¼ tspsugarसाखर · चीनी

—cilantroकोथिंबीर · धनिया

—limeलिंबू · नींबू

The order

In order

01Prep1/4 toop, 1 cup rava, stir.

02PrepHeat oil.

03Prep1/4 rai — mustard seeds.

04Prep4 leaves kadipatta — curry leaves.

05Prep1 chillies.

06PrepHalf onion small diced.

07Prep1/4 tsp turmeric.

08Prep1/8 tsp hinga — asafoetida.

09PrepCilantro in oil, with rava, and after done.

10PrepWater — 3 cups for 1 cup rava.

11Prep1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp sugar.

12PrepCilantro. Lime.

Notes

⚠️ This one is HER SHORTHAND, not prose — a list of quantities and moves rather than sentences. Transcribed exactly as written; the steps read as fragments because that is what she wrote.

She writes bare "1/4" twice, for the toop and the rai, with no unit. Nick's rule for her shorthand: a bare fraction is teaspoons or tablespoons, never cups. Applied here as tsp. The method steps still show her original bare "1/4".

⚠️ The ghee is the one still worth checking. A quarter teaspoon of toop to a whole cup of rava is very little fat for a sheera — a quarter TABLESPOON, or more, would be likelier. Recorded as tsp per the rule, but ask her before trusting it.

The rai at 1/4 tsp is consistent with the rest of her tempering and needs no confirmation.

The water ratio is the one thing stated plainly: 3 cups of water to 1 cup of rava.

"cxx" appeared after the water line in the source and looks like a stray keystroke, so it is not carried over. Nothing else was dropped.

"toop" is ghee, "rai" mustard seed, "kadipatta" curry leaves, "hinga" asafoetida — all hers.

Note this is the savoury sheera. The sweet one is a separate recipe under Sheera.

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