Name: Zarda recipe by Madhuri Ravi at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 500g basmati rice, (soaked for atleast 1 hour); 6 cardamoms; 1 bay leaf; 2 cinnamon sticks; 4 cloves; 1/4 cup pistachio; 100g ghee; 500g sugar; 1 tsp yellow food coloring; 1/2 cup raisins; 5ml rose water 5ml kewra water 1drop sweet attar 1/2 lime juice; finely sliced 1/2 cup almond; finely sliced 1/2 cup cashew nuts; 1g saffron

Ingredients Serving: 3

500g basmati rice, (soaked for atleast 1 hour)
6 cardamoms
1 bay leaf
2 cinnamon sticks
4 cloves
1/4 cup pistachio
100g ghee
500g sugar
1 tsp yellow food coloring
1/2 cup raisins
5ml rose water 5ml kewra water 1drop sweet attar 1/2 lime juice
finely sliced 1/2 cup almond
finely sliced 1/2 cup cashew nuts
1g saffron

Instructions

Boil rice in water with the food coloring. Drain when the rice is 70% cooked. Spread it on a big tray and allow it cool. Cook sugar with 250 ml water add lime juice.
Add ghee in a Lagan, fry cardamom,Cinnamon,bay leaf and cloves. After the sugar has dissolved made in the above step, mix it into the lagan and cook for further 5 minutes.
Add rose,kewra ,sweet attar,saffron and par boiled rice, seal the Lagan lid with a dough and cook it on slow flame until 45 minutes till the sheera ( syrup) dries up. Mix gently and serve , Garnish with fried nuts & silver leaf.
I have added gulab jamuns instead of khoya, its a small twist in the recipe by me.

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