Ingredients

• 1 cup - basmati rice
• 2 tbsp - ghee
• 1 cup - sugar
• 1/2 tsp - orange colour
• Some dry fruits and finely chopped coconut
• 1 tsp - cardamom, big and small
• 2 tsp - crumbled khoya
• Vark (optional)

How to Make Zarda (sweet yellow rice)

• Soak rice for 1 hour. Boil the rice with food colour.
• When it is 1/3 done, drain the water and spread on a clean cloth so that the grains do not stick to each other.
• Heat ghee in a pan and fry cardamom for 1-2 minutes.
• Add sugar and 2 tsp water. Boil until sugar dissolves.
• Now, add rice, khoya and enough water and cook on a high flame till the excess water evaporates.
• Cover and cook for 5 minutes on slow fire.
• Add dry fruits and again cover for 2-3 minutes or till cooked.