Zarda by Chef Zakir

                                                                                                     

Ingredients:

• 200 gm rice washed and soaked for 1 hour

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 1/2 cup ghee

• 1/2 tsp yellow color

• Almonds and pistachios chopped

• 1 tsp essence or kewara

Method:

• Boil water in a pan and add yellow color in it, add rice and cook it fully, then drain.

• In other pan heat the ghee when ghee melts then add sugar and 1/3 cup water, stir it until the sugar dissolves.

• Add chopped almonds and pistachios and 1 tsp kewara or essence.

• Add rice in this sugar syrup and put it on dum, covered for 10 minutes.

• Garnish with chopped almonds and pistachios, and also put silver cover over it for decoration.