Pineapple Zarda recipe | Sweetened Rice
 
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Pineapple Zarda Recipe|Sweetened Rice |Meethe Chawal| Zarda Pulao| Shaadi ke chawal is a vegan and gluten free, famous traditional dessert, known as Meethe Chawal. It's mainly prepared on special occasions like weddings.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 cup rice, basmati
  • 1.25 cups Pineapple juice
  • 1 bowl Pineapple cut into chunks
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 spoons oil
  • 2 sticks of cinnamon,
  • 4 green cardamom
  • 3-4 cloves
  • 1 cup water
  • Saffron strands few
  • Water 2 spoons to soak saffron
  • 2 drops of organic yellow food color (completely optional)
  • 2 drops of kevada water
  • Few drops of lemon juice
  • pinch of saffron
  • Pistachios, cashews, raisins & almonds handful
Instructions
  1. Add saffron in warm water. Set aside.
  2. Mix 1 cup of water with 1 cup of pineapple juice.
  3. Mix yellow food color and bring it to boil.
  4. Add soaked rice to this and sprinkle few drops of lemon ,and cook until rice is 90% done. This would make rice grains separated/ khila khila for zarda.
  5. Drain the rice and spread in a wide plate/ thali, so that rice does not stick to each other.
  6. In a separate pan, put oil. Put all the dry fruits. Fry and keep them aside.
  7. Next add cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. Saute it.
  8. Mix in remaining Pineapple juice & sugar. Add a cup of pineapple chunks. Cook till pineapple softens.
  9. Now add drained rice to this, sprinkle saffron milk & kevada water and mix well on low heat.
  10. Cover with aluminium foil and cook it on dum, till it is cooked and grains of rice are khila hua.
  11. Once liquid is dried, turn off stove. Remove the foil.
  12. Garnish with dry fruits. Serve hot with chunks of pineapple.
Notes
1. You may use clarified butter/pure ghee instead of oil but then it wouldn't be vegan.

2. To soak saffron in milk use vegan friendly milk like coconut or almond milk.

3. Using food colour in this recipe is completely optional.
Recipe by Yummy Tales Of Tummy at https://yummytalesoftummy.com/pineapple-zarda-recipe-sweetened-rice/