Sweet Saffron Rice
August 27th, 2007 filed under Desserts, Rice
The look and smell of saffron rice is delicious and tempting. It makes a perfect dessert for lunch or any kind of get together. You can serve this dish cold or warm.
Serves 4 to 6.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup basmati or long grain rice
- 2 tablespoons ghee or butter
- 1 3/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1″ piece of cinnamon stick (dalchini)
- 1/4 teaspoon of saffron threads (kaser)
- 4 whole cloves (laung)
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely crushed cardamom seeds (ilachi)
- Pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons sliced or crushed pistachios and almonds (pista, badam)
- 1 tablespoon raisins (kishmish)
Method:
- Dry roast the almonds, pistachios and raisins in a pan on medium heat until the raisins puff and the nuts slightly change color. Set aside.
- Put the rice, water, cinnamom stick, and salt in a sauce pan over medium high heat.
- When the rice comes to boil, reduce the heat to low and cover.
- Let the rice cook for about 15 minutes, or until the water has evaporated.
- While rice is cooking, in a separate saucepan combine milk, butter, sugar, saffron, cloves and cardamom and bring to boil on medium heat, stir until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat and set aside.
- Add the nuts mixture and sugar syrup over the rice. Fold gently into the rice with a spoon gently to avoid mashing the rice.
- Put the cover back over the rice and turn the heat on to very low. Let the rice simmer for 3 to 4 minutes. Turn the heat off and leave it covered for another few minutes before serving.
Hello Manjula! I just wanted to comment on your rice and naan recipes and videos. They were excellent. I recently travelled to Bangalore, India and had the opportunity to experience a lot of Indian cuisine and you have greatly helped me to prepare dishes at home that have me reminiscing of my time spent there. Thank you!
The Sweet rice was indeed very nice..I think slices of sweet mangoes will go very well with it. Thank You.
YUM. I made sweet saffron rice today, and it was so delish !
I used raw cashews and toasted them as I was out of pistachios.
Thanks for all the great recipes and ideas, i grew up eating this food because i lived next door to wonderful people who invited me over to try thier traditional foods, i miss it often and your website is a great and traditional resource!!! thanks
Could you please send me the receipe for hyderabad vegetable biryani?
Thanks Manjula ji for all the lovely reciepes. They are so simple and easy. Please keep posting new receipes which will help
all of us. I am newly married and I have prepared most of your dishes for my in-laws. They all are very happy.. A big thanks to
you…
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVELY SAFFRON.RICE RECIPE.
BRINGS BACK GOOD OLD MEMORIES.
BEST REGARDS MICHAEL MAHONY AUSTRALIA.
Hi, I always feard to cook zarda rice but today I tried your recipe of Sweet Saffron Rice. My husband and his two friends enjoyed it toooo much (ofcourse me too). Their comments were “awesome, great”. For a moment i could not believe that such a nice recipe I have prepared. The rice were seperate and credit goes to you. Thanks for such a wonderful recipe. Can you please add any recipe of Eggplant? Waiting for your reply
I was really delighted to find your website with all these delicious recipes Manjula. You cook really well. I was looking for an aloo gobi recipe after eating at an Indian restaurant here in Los Angeles today when I saw your u-tube video. I really enjoyed watching you make the delicious looking food. I’m going to try making the sweet saffron rice, but I just need to go out and buy a few ingedrients. Thank you once again for a lovely website. By the way, my younger sister cooks too and has a website of her own. It’s http://www.myepikorean.com if you are interested. She has Korean food with a Southern Calfornian twist. Thanks again.
Great : my guests thought I had take away from Indian Restaurant . I served this dish with Took Alu Sindhi style fried Pototoes .
Try It again n again
Kishu