How to Make Zarda Rice: English – Urdu Recipe

How to Make Zarda Rice

Ingredients:

1. Sela Rice – 3 cup (soaked for 6 to 7 hours)
2. Sugar – 2 ½ cup
3. Pistachio – 10 (peel and thinly crush)
4. Almond – 10 (peel and thinly crush)
5. Milk – 1 cup
6. Cloves – 4
7. Butter or ghee – 1 cup
8. Green cardamoms – 6 to 8
9. Orange food colour – ½ tsp
10. Ashrafies (candy fruit) – few

Method:

• Boil water to cook rice and add 2 cloves and 3 green cardamoms in the water.
• Put rice in the boil water and let it cook for 5-8 mins.
• When the rice is boiled, drain all the extra water.
• Now take a big bowl or dish and put boiled rice, milk, food colour, sugar, dry fruits and ashrafies as well and mix it well.
• In a pan, put ghee and fry cloves and cardamom, when they turn brown and an aroma starts to come, add rice and mix it well and then put on dum for 5 min on high heat.
• Then put it on slow heat and then serve.