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1. Heat water in a pan and add yellow food coloring.
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2. When water is boiled, add rice.
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3. If rice are cooked, take them out in a strainer.
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4. Pour cold tap water on boiled rice.
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5. Heat oil and in a pot and add cloves, cinnamon and green cardamoms.
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6. When cloves start crackling, add boiled rice and lower the flame.
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7. Add sugar with rice and mix.
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8. After mixing sugar with rice, if sugar starts leaving water, turn the flame high to dry the sugar water.
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9. When water is dried out, mix the rice and place on low flame for dam.
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10. Zarda is ready. Serve with gulab jamun, khoya and other sweets.
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Zarda Recipe in English (Sweet Rice) |
Ingredients:
- Rice (Saila) : 1/2 kg
- Sugar : 1/2 kg
- Ghee : 1 cup
- Cloves : 2 to 3
- Green cardamoms: 3 to 4
- Cinnamon : 1 small piece
- Yellow food coloring : 1/2 tablespoon
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Decoration Ingredients:
- Ashrafi : 125 grams (red and green) or whichever easily available
- Almonds : as per taste
- Pistachio : as per taste
- Coconuts : as per taste (thin chopped)
- Khoya : 1/4 kg
- Gulab jamun : 125 grams or as per desired
- Cham cham : 125 grams or as per desired
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NOTE: Better take small gulab jamun and cham cham. If they are large, break into small pieces. If you couldn't get khoya, use white kalakand.
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Preparing Zarda:
First, boil water in a bot and during boiling, add yellow food coloring with water.
When water is boiled, add rice and cook them completely. Then take rice out in a strainer and put cold tap water on the boiled rice. By pouring cold water on rice, they do not stick after cooking.
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Method of Cooking Zarda: |
- First, heat oil in a pan for 3 to 4 minutes.
- When ghee is heated, add green cardamoms, cloves and cinnamon.
- When cloves start crackling, add boiled rice and also sugar to the rice and mix.
- When sugar is dissolved, turn the flame high so that sugar water is dried.
- Do not move ladle repeatedly; it will break the rice.
- When rice water is dried, place for dam.
- When rice is cooked completely, add asharfi, almonds, pistachios, chopped coconuts, khoya, gulab jamun and cham cham to the rice.
- Very tasty zarda sweet rice are ready. Eat yourself and also serve others.
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Note:
Use saila rice for zarda.
Soak saila rice for 3 to 4 hours beforehand.
Cook rice in wide mouthed cooking pot so they do not break.
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