Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Yellow Sweet rice (Zarda)

Yellow Sweet rice (Zarda).

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook yellow sweet rice (zarda) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Yellow Sweet rice (Zarda):

1. {Take 1 cup of basmati rice (or any premium rice).
2. {Get 7-8 cups of water for boiling rice.
3. {Prepare as needed of yellow food color.
4. {Prepare 4 Tbsp of ghee (clarified butter).
5. {Prepare 4 cloves of crushed.
6. {Take 4 of cardamoms crushed.
7. {Take of Few drops of kewra water (optional).
8. {Take of 🌻For sugar syrup.
9. {Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
10. {Prepare 1/2 of water water.
11. {Take of 🌻Mix nuts & fruits (sliced).
12. {Get 8 of almonds chopped.
13. {Get 5-6 of glazed cherries.
14. {Make ready 10 of pistachios chopped.
15. {Take 10 of raisins.

Steps to make Yellow Sweet rice (Zarda):

1. Wash rice well and soak in lots of water for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, bring 7-8 cups water to a rolling boil in a large pot. Add food color. Drain the water from the rice and add it to the boiling water..
2. Boil the rice until 95% cooked. Meaning the grains are just done, fully cooked and not mushy. If you undercook the rice here, the grains will turn hard later after adding to the sugar syrup. Press down a rice grain in between your fingers, it should get mashed well and not be hard..
3. Immediately drain the rice completely and spread it wide in the colander itself or big tray Cool down completely. When the rice cools down, add ghee to a wide pan and heat it.
Fry the nuts until golden and then add the raisins. When the raisins turn plump, remove to a plate. Then add crushed cloves and cardamoms & fry for 30 to 60 seconds..
4. Add sugar and water. Stir well.
Cook this until the sugar melts and syrup comes to a 2 string consistency. To check this cool a bit of syrup and take it in between your thumb and forefinger. When you gently separate the fingers you should see 2 strings..
5. Add the cooled rice and mix gently to coat it well with the syrup. Level the rice on top. 
Layer the nuts over the zarda. 
Cover the rice and keep it on a low flame to steam cook (dum)for 10 mins. Rest for another 15 mins. Zarda will be perfectly done. If you still see moisture at the bottom, then dum cook for longer..
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