Method
- Wash and soak the rice for about 20 minutes.
- Boil the rice in sufficient water.
- After a boil, simmer.
- Cook till the rice is three fourth done.
- Drain the water and cool completely in a plate.
- Take sugar in a saucepan.
- Add enough water to just cover the sugar and cook on a medium flame.
- Stir continuously to make a syrup of one thread consistency.
- Add saffron to the lukewarm milk and soak it for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Lightly heat 2 tbsp ghee and fry the raisins and keep aside.
- Fry the cashewnuts in ghee till golden.
- Lightly heat 1 tbsp ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel and add the rice.
- Add the sugar syrup and soaked saffron to the rice and mix gently.
- Keep the vessel on a pre-heated tawa on a low flame for about 10 minutes.
- Serve garnished with fried raisins and cahewnuts.
Ingredients:
250 gms - basmati rice
100 gms - sugar
15 to 20 strands - saffron soaked in ¼ cup - milk
3 tbsp - ghee (for deep frying the dry fruits)
12 to 15 - raisins
12 to 15 - cashewnuts (halved)