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Published 27 Jul, 2017 04:15am

Recipe of the day: Zarda

Ingredients

Rice 250 gm
Sugar ½ cup
Khewra essence few drops
Small cardamom4-5
Khoya½ cup
Dry fruit½ cup
Yellow food color1 pinch
Green food color pinch
Yellow food color pinch
Silver papers required
Gulab Jaman/Rasgulla as required
Clarified butter1 cup

Method

Wash 250 gm rice for 2-3 hours. Then add in few drops of khewra essence and boil it. Add in 1 cup clarified butter in pan and sauté 4-5 small cardamom. Add in some water and ½ cup sugar. Cook it and when the sugar is dissolved add in rice, pinch of yellow food color and ½ cup khoya. Now divide the rice in three parts and put a pinch of green ,yellow and zarda color in the rice separately. Add in marba, ½ kg dry fruits. Mix it and simmer. Garnish it with silver paper and dry fruits and serve.

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