Pakistani people like zarda rice the most. When they want to eat some sweet dish they start to cook it. They like this dish very much. People cook it on demand from their family members. Some busy people go to restaurants to taste zarda. People add more sugar to it. Some add less to it. Some use Jaggery ( Gur in Urdu ) instead of sugar. It depends upon their taste. But you know what is the common thing between them? The common thing is that they can never skip this dish from their cooking schedules
Sweetness is important in life as our happiness is important. Both things are linked together. When we feel happy, we will want to eat some sweet food. It is said by someone ” Sweetness is created to share your happiness with sweet people in your life”. Zarda Rice recipe Pakistani is very famous around the globe.
Now we are going to know how to cook one of the most famous dishes of Pakistan which is sweet rice. Pakistani people call it ” Zarda,”
Ingredients of Zarda
- 1 kg rice
- 1 kg sugar
- Dry fruits including almonds and Raisins
- Cardamon
- The yellow colour ( Zarda Rang in Urdu ) is especially used for cooking purposes
- Milk about one cup of tea
Method of cooking Sweet rice or Zarda Chawal
1) First of all take 1 kg rice. Clean them. Then soak in water for some time. You can say about 5 to 10 minutes.
2) Take a cooking pot. Add about 2 1/2 kg water, yellow colour one small packet available in stores, and cardamon about 1 tablespoon. Put the pot on the fire.
3) Water starts to boil then add Rice.
4) When you feel that 1/3 part of the rice has been cooked or in another calculation when you feel that 60/ rice has cooked now put off the pot from the fire and remove all water from them with the help of a sieve.
5) Now keep the cooking pot and put it on fire. Now add 1 quarter oil, one cup of milk, 1 tablespoon cardamon, and 1 kg sugar and it can also be according to your taste.
6) When you feel that sugar has melted now add boiled rice to it.
7) Now mix them but very carefully. Now add dry fruits and mix them carefully.
8) Cover rice with a piece of cloth and then with a potlid.
9) Put them in the gentle fire for some time about 5 to 10 minutes. Now they have ripped. You can use them, eat them.
Spread Sweetness
You know life is full of happiness. But the need is how we can celebrate happiness. Then after finding the answer we move towards the Kitchen to make some sweet dishes and taste some sweets and serve some sweet dishes to our family. Zarda Chawal takes no long time to cook.
I hope you like our zarda recipe. If you like then please share with your friends and family. Thank you 🙂
