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- Prep Time
- Minutes
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- Cook Time
- Minutes
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- Serving
- 4
Ingredients |
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Basmati Rice | 1 cup |
Cashew nuts (kaju) | 5-6 |
Raisins (kismis) | 5-7 |
Cloves (laung) | 2-3 |
Saffron | Few strands |
Green cardamom (chhoto elaichi) powder | ¼ tea spoon |
Clarified butter (ghee) | 2 table spoons |
Sugar (chini) | 6-7 table spoons |
Instructions
- Soak rice for half an hour.
- Dissolve saffron in warm water and keep aside.
- Heat up clarified butter in a pan, fry raisins and cashew nuts, remove and keep aside.
- In the same clarified butter add cloves and rice and stir it for 2-3 minutes.
- Mix in 11/2 cup of boiling water to the rice and mix in saffron water and let it cook.
- When half done mix in sugar and continue to stir fry till all the water has been absorbed and the rice is cooked.
- Finally mix in the cardamom powder and decorate it with fried dry fruits.
- Serve hot.
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