Soft Banana Sheera Halwa
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Rava roasted in ghee, cooked with mashed banana and milk — a soft sheera that tastes richer than it is.
Banana sheera is a quick sweet, a soft rava halwa with mashed banana. It is a useful way to use bananas that are going brown, and it is on the table in 15 minutes. It is a common sweet for pooja days and sudden guests, and it needs only pantry ingredients.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Roast rava in ghee.
Add liquid carefully; cook soft.
Fold banana and sweetener; finish cardamom.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Fruit adds natural sweetness so you can use less sugar. Keep ghee measured.
Ripe banana adds sweetness and moisture, so you need less sugar than in plain sheera.
Pro Tips
- →Mash banana smooth.
- →Low flame after liquid.
- →Serve warm.
- →Roast the rava on low heat until fragrant and lightly golden.
- →Add hot milk or water slowly and stand back, it splutters.
- →Fold in the banana at the end so it does not turn dark.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Ghee: about 876 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Sugar: about 387 kcal (about 20 kcal per teaspoon); Rava (semolina, dry): about 360 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Jaggery.
- 2Wheat sheera base.
- 3Use jaggery powder in place of sugar for a deeper colour.
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