Sweet Saffron Rice
These rice are lightly sweetened and full of aromatic spices. Bright yellow color of rice makes them look absolutely stunning.
Method
1. Cook rice in a rice cooker with 3 cups of water until almost cooked. Remove the extra left water.
2. In a pan, heat 1 tbsp of ghee or butter, add cinnamon stick, saffron strands, cloves, green cardamom, almonds, coconut and raisins. Give a quick stir and add sugar.
3. Then add the rice and mix everything with light hands. Add a pinch of food color and mix again so that rice get nicely coated with the food color.
4. Let rice cook with sugar for 5-7 minutes on low heat until almost dry. Keep stirring in between to prevent burning.
5. Switch off the gas and add cardamom powder and mix.
Make sure you serve these warm. Enjoy the gorgeous yellow sweet rice.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup white rice (washed and soaked for 15-20 min)
- 3 cups water
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup dry coconut (chopped into thin slices)
- 2 tbsp golden raisins (soaked in hot water for 15 minutes)
- 2 tbsp almonds (soaked, blanched and chopped)
- some saffron strands
- 3-4 green cardamom
- 3-4 whole cloves
- 1 stick cinnamon (broken in half)
- a pinch of yellow food color
- 1 tbsp ghee or butter
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
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