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Kesar Bhat Or Saffron Rice goes back a long way. Served to the Mughal royalty as a special treat, it is now recreated in Kitchens all over India, particularly Diwali. Here’s the Kesar Bhat recipe. |
Ingredients-:
- 1 tblsp cashew nuts
- 1 tblsp raisins
- Few Strands of Saffron
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
- 1 tblsp pure ghee
- ½ cup sugar
- 25 grams sugar crystals
Directions-:
- Soak rice for half an hour.
- Heat up ghee in a pan, fry raisins and cashew nuts, remove and keep aside.
- In the same ghee mix in rice and stir-fry till rice starts separating.
- Dissolve saffron in warm water and keep aside.
- Mix in 1 ½ 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 and sugar crystals.
- Serve hot
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