RECIPE OF ZARDA IN ENGLISH | URDU - HOW TO COOK ZARDA IN ENGLISH | URDU

Ingredients

• Rice Saila, soaked for 6-7 hours 3 cups
• Sugar 2 1/2 cups
• Milk 1 cup
• Cloves 4
• Pistachios, finely chopped 10
• Almonds, finely chopped 10
• Cardamoms 6-8
• Yellow food color 1/2 tsp
• Colored ashrafies few, cut in twos
• Ghee 1 cup
• Water

Cooking Directions

1. Bring water to boil in a large pan, add drained rice, 2 cloves and 3 cardamoms.
2. When rice is almost done, strain in a colander and leave in colander for a few minutes.
3. Turn the rice out in a large open bowl.
4. Mix in the food color, milk, nuts, sugar and ashrafies.
5. Heat oil in a large pan, add cardamom and cloves and rice.
6. Stir with a wooden spoon, cover and cook on high heat for five minutes.
7. Then put the pan on a tawa and put on heat.
8. Lower heat after a few minutes, leave till rice is done.
9. Serve hot or cold.