sheer khurma

{{Short description|Eid dessert; vermicelli pudding}}

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| country = Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan

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| main_ingredient = Vermicelli, milk, dates, cashew nuts, cardamom, butter

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Sheer khurma or sheer khorma ({{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|شير خرما}}|shîr xormâ}} "milk and dates"){{Cite book |last=Steingass |first=Francis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3l0DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Shir+khurma%22&pg=PA773 |title=Persian-English Dictionary: Including Arabic Words and Phrases in Persian Literature |date=2018-10-24 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-85248-0 |pages=773 |language=en |quote=شیر خرما shīr-khūrma, Dates and milk.}} is a festival vermicelli pudding prepared by Muslims on Eid ul-Fitr{{cite book | last=Singh | first=K. | title=City Improbable: Writings (R/E) | publisher=Penguin Group | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-14-341532-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofkkof4uE0oC&pg=PA190 | access-date=19 March 2017 | page=190}} and Eid al-Adha in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and parts of India and Central Asia. It is equivalent to shemai, a Bangladeshi dessert. It is a traditional Muslim festive breakfast,{{efn|"Having bathed and dressed in their newest outfits, they sit down to the traditional breakfast of sheer khurma and milk"}} and a dessert for celebrations. This dish is made from various dry fruits, vermicelli, condensed milk, sugar, etc. Depending on the region, cardamom, pistachios, almonds, cloves, saffron, raisins, and rose water are also added.

This special dish is served on the morning of Eid day in the family after the Eid prayer as breakfast, and throughout the day to all the visiting guests. In its original form, it consists of dates mixed with milk from Iran and dry fruits and nuts from Afghanistan which is where it originated.{{Cite book |last=Philip |first=Thangam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGaLeof_JUUC&dq=%22Sheer+Khurma%22&pg=PA13 |title=Flavours from India |date=1993 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-0817-0 |language=en |quote=The sheer khurma, one of the favourite Bohra sweets, highlights the culinary route taken by the Arabs to the East. This dessert which in its original form consists of dates mixed with milk from Iran and dry fruits and nuts from Afghanistan is modified in India by the addition of fried semia and caramelised sugar.}} It is modified in India by the addition of fried semia and caramelised sugar.