Zarda | Sweet rice

Name: Zarda | Sweet rice
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 1/2 kg rice; 1 cup sugar = 200gm or (can use more); water (for boiling rice); 6 tablespoons cooking oil; few green cardamom; 1/2 cup raisins (washed); 1/2 cup coconut 🥥 (sliced & washed); yellow food colour (as required)

Saba's Bakistry @Sabasbakistry

Zarda is sweet rice dish , its easy & quick recipe that I always make when I need a quick sweet dish.
Its everyone's favourite at our home , I make its sugar free version too for my husband as he's diabetic , its his favourite dish .But today am sharing its version sweetened with sugar.
Zarda was a part of wedding menu days back in 90s .
#ricestyle

Saba's Bakistry @Sabasbakistry

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Ingredients

30 minutes

6 servings

1/2 kgrice
1 cupsugar = 200gm or (can use more)
water (for boiling rice)
6 tablespoonscooking oil
few green cardamom
1/2 cupraisins (washed)
1/2 cupcoconut 🥥 (sliced & washed)
yellow food colour (as required)

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Wash rice then soak it in plenty water for an hour.
2

Then take a pot add water and food color let the water boil then add soaked rice boil till rice is fully cooked.
3

Then strain rice. Keep in strainer so all excess water drains. Take the raisins and coconut too.
4

Now add oil in a pot, add crushed green cardamom. Now turn on flame, heat oil as the cardamom start aroma turn off flame, let the oil cool a bit.
5

Now add the cooked rice, sugar, raisins, coconut mix well, cover the lid, turn on the flame keep it very low.
Let it steam so the sugar dissolve completely, stir in between after 5 minutes, as the sugar dissolve it releases lot of moisture so dry it out completely but keeping the flame very low, so don't burn at bottom.
6

As all moisture dries out, tasty, Zarda, sweet rice is ready, serve it warm.

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Saba's Bakistry @Sabasbakistry

on September 22, 2022 17:46

Am Saba Naeem ,Recipe developer , youtuber , blogeri love to cook & bake , share my recipes as i believe sharing is caringcan find easy & economical recipes on my youtube channel SABA'S BAKISTRY its link is below👇https://youtube.com/channel/UCv0Tdtzd_zwnuG0z-tZTTrQ