Ingredients

• 250 gm - basmati rice
• 100 gm - sugar
• 20 strands - saffron soaked in 1/2 cup of milk
• 3 tbsp - ghee
• 15 - raisins
• 15 - cashew nuts, halved

How to Make Sweet Kesar Rice

• 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 it completely in a plate.
• Take sugar in a saucepan.
• Add enough water to 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 15-20 mins.
• Lightly heat 2 tbsp ghee, fry the raisins and keep aside.
• Fry the cashewnuts in ghee till golden.
• Lightly heat 1 tbsp of ghee in a heavy bottom vessel and add the rice.
• Add the sugar syrup, soaked saffron to the rice and mix gently.
• Keep the vessel on a pre-heated tawa on a low flame for about 10 mins.
• Serve garnished with fried raisins and cashewnuts.