YELLOW ZARDA (sweet rice)

Name: YELLOW ZARDA (sweet rice)
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 5 glasses water; 1 Stick cinnamon; 1 Bay leaf; 2 Star anise; 3 Green cardamom; 6 Cloves; Zarda Colorado yellow few drop (as your desire); 500 g (half kg) Sela Rice Soaked in water for 2 hours; 2 tbsp ghee; 3 Green cardamom; 500 g (half kg) sugar; 1 tsp Rose Essence; Ashrafi Green, Red (Tutti Frutti) Dry fruits (Chopped almonds,; Colour full sweet as your require

Sajida Perveen 786 @Sajida_RiwayatFood

Karachi

#PAKISTANKAMEETHA. Zarda is a traditional boiled sweet rice dish, native to the pakistan subcontinent, with food coloring, sugar, and flavoured with cardamoms,khoya, raisins, saffron, pistachios or almonds and colour full small sweet.

Sajida Perveen 786 @Sajida_RiwayatFood

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Ingredients

For boiled rice
5 glasseswater
1 Stickcinnamon
1Bay leaf
2Star anise
3Green cardamom
6Cloves
Zarda Colorado yellow few drop (as your desire)
500 g(half kg) Sela Rice Soaked in water for 2 hours
For Cook Zarda
2 tbspghee
3Green cardamom
500 g(half kg) sugar
1 tspRose Essence
Ashrafi Green, Red (Tutti Frutti) Dry fruits (Chopped almonds,
Colour full sweet as your require

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Steps

1

First, take water in a pot add Water, Cinnamon Stick, Bay leaf, Star anise, Green cardamom,
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Cloves & add yellow colour with water. When water is boiled, add rice and cook them completely
3

Then take rice out in a strainer and drain the water.
First heat ghee in a pan.
4

When ghee is heated, add crack green cardamoms.
Fry it 2 mins then, add boiled rice and also sugar to the rice and mix.
5

When sugar is dissolved, turn the flame high so that sugar water is dried.
Do not move ladle repeatedly; it will break the rice.
6

When rice water is dried & rice cooked completely, add Rose essence, Ashrafi, almonds, pistachios, chopped coconuts, and now place for dam (Now cook at low flame).
7

And add colour full sweet.Very tasty zarda sweet rice is ready.