Zarda rice recipe

"Zarda" : It is a sweet recipe of rice famous in sub-continent region including Bangladish, Pakistan and India. Usually cooks on religious events, family gathering and marriages.

Ingredients required for its cooking are rice 1/2 Kg (putt them in water for 20 minutes), 2 cups of sugar, 15 Almonds, 15 pistachios (put almond and pistachio in hot water for some time and remove the outer skin of almond and sliced then in small pieces), 6 cloves, 1 cup cooking oil, 100g fruit pickle cut into small cubes shape, food color (yellow, green, red)

Now in a pot takes 8 cups of water and heat it when it start boiling add rice along with cloves. cook it for 10 to 15 minutes then filter water from rice and let it to dry. Now putt these boiled rice in a big flat plate putt color, sugar, fruit pickle, almonds and pistachio and mix them genteelly. Now putt oil in the pot and heat it add rice mixture and cook on medium heat. When the sugar (glucose secretion) become dry close the pot with cap so it become air tight and now cook on very low heat for 10 minutes. Food is ready and after serving this food people like to drink tea.