Khana- Indian Recipes and Cuisine

Method

Step 1: Wash the rice and soak in water for 20 minutes.
Step 2: Soak saffron and raisins in little warm milk.
Step 3: Heat the oil and roast the soaked rice together with cardamoms, cloves and black pepper.
Step 4: When rice is slightly roasted, pour the saffron milk mixture with rose water and one cup of fresh water and salt to taste, cook the rice till done.
Step 5: Add green peas with cooked rice and stir gently.
Step 6: Decorate the rice with saffron and serve with sweet curd.
Step 7: For Sweet curd - Beat the curd with sugar and mix with almonds and raisins, serve with rice.

Ingredients

Rice - 2 cups

Fresh milk - 1 cup

Rose water - 100 ml

Green peas - 100 gms (Boiled)

Saffron - 5 gms

Black pepper - 1/2 tsp

Cloves - 4

Cardamoms - 5

Raisins - 1 tbsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Salt to taste

For sweet curd

Fresh curd - 1 cup

Sugar - 2 tsp

Raisins - 2 tsp

Almonds - 5