Zarda – Saffron Sweet Rice

Ingredients
2 cup Sela Rice (soaked for 2 to 3 hours)
1 ½ cup Sugar
6 to 8 Pistachio (chopped)
6 to 8 Almond (chopped)
Few Ashrafis (candy fruit) murabba
3 Cloves
Oil or Ghee
4 to 6 Green cardamoms (Choti Ilaichi)
½ cup Milk
Special Zafrani Zarda Rice Recipe for Eid

How To Make Zarda
Boil water then put rice in it for 15 minutes rice in the boil water and let it and add 2 to 3 cloves cook for 5 to 8 mins. When the rice is boiled, drain all the extra water.
Now take a big bowl or dish and put boiled rice, milk, food colour, sugar,dry fruits and ashrafies ( murabba )as well and mix it well.
In a pan, put ghee and fry cloves and cardamom, when they turn brown and an aroma starts to come, add rice and mix it well and then put on dum for 5 min on high heat. Then put it on slow heat and then serve

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Three Colored Zarda

Ingredients

• Basmati Rice 1/2 Kg
• Sugar 1/2 Kg
• Water 8Cup
• Ghee 1/2Cup
• Green Cardamom 6
• Clove 6
• Coconut Slices 1/2Cup
• Khoya 1Cup
• Almonds Sliced 2 Tbsp
• Pistachio Sliced 2 Tbsp
• Ashrafis Sliced Red 2 Tbsp
• Ashrafis Sliced Green 2 Tbsp
• Red Color Few Drops
• Green Color Few Drops
• Yellow Color Few Drops
Cooking Time : 30 min
Serving : 2 to 4 persons
Method
Soak 1/2 kg rice for half an hour, boil 8 cups water with salt, 6 green cardamoms and 6 cloves, add rice and cook till nearly done, drain and keep aside, in a pan put 1/2 cup ghee with 1 cup water and 1/2 kg sugar and cook, stirring until the sugar dissolves and turns into a thick syrup, when the syrup starts to boil add in boiled rice along with 2 tbsp sliced almonds and 2 tbsp sliced pistachios, cover pan and cook on a medium flame, open lid after 5 minutes, when the syrup starts to dry, lower flame add in all the three colors, simmer for 10 minutes, lastly sprinkle 1 cup Khoya and 2 tbsp green and red color ashrafis.

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