Sevai | Meethi Seviyan | Sweet Vermicelli
Sevai is a delicious and simple-to-make sweet noodle dish spiced with cardamom and saffron.
Prep: 5 min
Cook: 30 min
Total: 35 min
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 cup angel hair pasta or vermicelli (broken into 1” pieces)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp ghee
- 1 1/2 cups water or milk
- 1/2 tsp cardamom
- 1 pinch saffron
- 2 Tbsp chopped nuts of choice
Instructions
- Heat 2 tablespoons of ghee in a pan. Add nuts. Toast until lightly golden. Remove the nuts into a bowl, keeping the ghee in the pan.
- Add pasta and toast until golden. Remove the pasta to a separate bowl..
- Add water to the pot and add saffron. Bring to a boil. Add the toasted pasta. Cover and cook for 7 minutes under low heat.
- Add sugar. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add cardamom and 1/2 of the nuts. Mix well, cover, and allow to cool for 20 minutes. This will allow the sugar to soak into the pasta.
- Garnish with remaining nuts.
Nutrition
- Calories: 131
- Carbohydrates: 20
- Protein: 2
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 2
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2
- Cholesterol: 10
- Sodium: 3
- Potassium: 41
- Fiber: 1
- Sugar: 13
- Vitamin A: 0.1
- Vitamin C: 0.03
- Calcium: 11
- Iron: 0.2