Sheer Khurma — The Eid Morning Pot

Name: Sheer Khurma — The Eid Morning Pot
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 150g Roasted sawaiya; 2 litres Full-cream milk; 10-12 Dates, sliced; 1/2 cup Sugar; 2 tbsp Ghee; 1/2 cup Khopra + mixed nuts; 4 pods Green cardamom; 100ml Milkpak cream

The vermicelli-milk-date dessert every Eid table opens with — one pot, thirty minutes. Serves 8.

18 July 2026 · 1 min read

Prep: 15 minCook: 30 minTotal: 45 minServes: 8

Ingredients

150g Roasted sawaiya — buy at AkBaat
2 litres Full-cream milk
10-12 Dates, sliced
1/2 cup Sugar — buy at AkBaat
2 tbsp Ghee — buy at AkBaat
1/2 cup Khopra + mixed nuts — buy at AkBaat
4 pods Green cardamom — buy at AkBaat
100ml Milkpak cream — buy at AkBaat

Instructions

Warm ghee; briefly toast nuts, khopra and dates — one minute, fragrant.
Add milk and cardamom; bring to a gentle boil.
Add sawaiya (roasted packs skip the browning step); simmer 10-12 minutes until tender and the milk slightly thickens.
Sugar in; five more minutes. Finish with cream off the heat.
Serve warm on Eid morning; it loosens with a milk splash on reheat.

Sheer khurma — literally "milk with dates" — is Eid's opening ceremony: the pot that greets every guest from Fajr to sunset.

Serving Suggestions

Warm, in small bowls, continuously — Eid protocol assumes refills. The date sweetness means less sugar than kheer; taste before the full half-cup.

Storage

Three refrigerated days; it thickens and improves. Every reheat wants a milk splash and a stir.

Cook's Notes

Roasted sawaiya is the shortcut with zero cost — buy it before the last-ashra rush per the Ramadan guide. The ghee-toasted nuts are the aroma signature; don't skip the sixty seconds.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sawaiya galne se pehle milk kam ho jata hai?

Flame too high — sheer khurma wants a patient simmer. If it over-thickens, cold milk stirred in rescues it at any stage; the dish is famously forgiving.