Name: Vermicelli and Sweet Yogurt Birthday Breakfast (Sev Dahi)
Yield: Serves 6 to 8.
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: ¾ cup water; ¼ cup golden raisins; 3 to 4 tablespoons ghee; 2 scant tablespoons (or more) sugar; 1 to 3 hard-boiled eggs in their shells; ¼ cup slivered almonds; ½ teaspoon crushed cardamom seeds; ¾ cup (or more) sugar; ¼ pound untoasted sev; 2 teaspoons tart plain yogurt; Pinch of salt; 5 cups whole milk

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

My Bombay Kitchen

By Niloufer Ichaporia King

Published 2007

About

Our Iranian forebears celebrated birthdays with the roasting of a whole sheep, ox, or camel. Birthday celebrations are a lot tamer now, but auspicious days, birthdays in particular, require special breakfast foods: this dish of warm, sweet vermicelli (sev) and sweetened yogurt (mitthu dahi), and the following recipe for creamy semolina pudding called rava.

Sev dahi is one of those fundamentally Parsi things all of us need to know how to make. My mother’s