Zarda Recipe

Ingredients:

• Sela rice 1/2 kg
• Sugar 1/2 kg
• Water 8 cups
• Green cardamoms 6
• Cloves 6
• Khoya 1 cup
• Almonds as required
• Pistachios as required
• Raisins as required
• Colorful asfrafiyan as required
• Yellow food color few drops
• Red food color few drops
• Green food color few drops
  
• Gulab jamun as required
• Green & pink cham cham as required
  
• Ghee 1/2 cup

Direction:

1. First soak rice for 3-4 hours.
2. Then boil water with salt, cardamoms and cloves.
3. Then add rice and cook until done.
4. Then drain it and keep it aside.
5. Then heat ghee in pot, put 1 cup water and sugar and cook until sugar dissolves.
6. Then add boiled rice, cover it and cook on medium flame.
7. When syrup dries, add yellow food color, red food color and green food color  and simmer it on low flame for 10-20 minutes.
8. Then take out dish, keep gulab jamun, cham cham, sprinkle khoya, almonds, pistachios, coconut slices, raisins and ashrafiyan and serve hot.