Zarda Recipe | Zarda Rice | Sweet rice | Meethe Chawal recipe|Zarda Pulao
Zarda Pulao / Zarda Meethe Chawal is a traditional and famous ghee-enriched saffron-colored sweet rice dish, exquisite flavored with cardamom and other fragrant spices, and loaded with cashew, almonds, and raisins; which is famous in North and east India and also Bangladesh and Pakistan
It is served during festivals, weddings, or other auspicious occasions, where the delicious cardamom-flavored sweet rice provides an exciting and satisfying end to any meal.
The name ‘zarda‘ comes from the Persian word ‘zard’, which means ‘yellow’, because the food color and saffron added to the rice gives it a vibrant yellow color. Zarda is basically served after a meal. It is quite similar to Persian saffron rice pudding or Shole Zard a traditional Iranian dessert, and Zerde a traditional Persian, Iraqi, and Turkish, dessert. a traditional Turkish dessert.
The types of equipment required for this recipe are
- Mixing/Serving Bowl
- Pan with lid
- Spatula
Ingredients required for Zarda Recipe | Zarda Rice | Sweet rice | Meethe Chawal recipe
- Ghee/Clarified butter-3 tbsp
- Long grain basmati rice(soaked)-300 gm
- Almonds-10
- Cashew-10
- Raisins-15
- Cinnamon-1/2 inch stick
- Cardamom-2
- Cloves-5
- Saffron thread-6-8
- Orange/Yellow food color-1 drop
- Sugar-1/2 cup
Preparation: How to make Zarda Pulao / Zarda Meethe Chawal
- Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pan and add the almond and cashew, when they become light brown in color, then take them out from the ghee
Add raisins and stir them for 20 seconds and take them out from the ghee
Now add some ghee to the pan and fry cardamom, cinnamon, and cloves for 30 seconds
Add water, followed by saffron and orange food color, and mix them well ( always the ratio of the water and rice is 1:1)
Now add the soaked rice, and mix them well
Cover the lid, and allow them to cook for 15 minutes on medium flame
Open the lid; now rice is cooked to almost 80 %; add the fried dry fruits, sugar, and ghee
Again cover the lid and allow them to cook for 5 minutes at a simmer
After 5 minutes turn off the flame, and rest them for another 10 minutes
Open the lid and serve
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Zarda Pulao / Zarda Meethe Chawal
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- A kadai or a fry pan with lid
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp Ghee/Clarified butter
- 300 gm Long grain basmati rice
- 10 almond
- 10 cashew
- 15 raisin
- 1/2 inch cinamom stick
- 2 Cardamom
- 4 Cloves
- 6-8 thread saffron
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 yellow food color
Instructions
- Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pan and add the almond and cashew, when they become lightbrown in color, then take them out from the ghee
- Add raisins and stir them for 20 seconds and take them out from the ghee
- Now add some ghee in the pan and fry cardamom, cinnamon and cloves for 30 seconds
- Add water, followed by saffron and orange food color, and mix them well ( the ratio of the water and rice is 1:1)
- Now add the soaked rice, and mix them well
- Cover the lid, and allow them to cook for 15 minutes in medium flame
- Open the lid; now rice is cooked almost 80 %; add the fried dry fruits, sugar and ghee
- Again cover the lid and allow them to cook for 5 minutes in simmer
- After 5 minutes turn off the flame, and rest them for another 10 minutes
- Open the lid and serve