My girls love meethey chawal but ive got no idea how to make them. I tried once and it was all wrong and had to throw them away. Can anyone help please?
Would appreciate a step by step guide and measurements. Thankyou. 
ZARDA
Ingredients:
FOR SYRUP:
Sugar 1 ½ kg
Lime 1
Milk 100 ml
Water 4 litre
FOR RICE:
Basmati rice 750 gms
Cloves 10
Cinnamon 2 pieces
Small green cardamoms 15
Alum 1 pinch
Saffron colour ½ tsp
TO MIX:
Desi ghee 150 gms
Khoya 200 gms
Saffron 1 gm
Kewra jal 4 tbsp
FOR GARNISH:
Almonds 50 gms
Pistachio nuts 25 gms
Silver foul few
Method
To prepare syrup, put the sugar, water and lime juice in a pan. Bring to boil, add little milk at a time and remove scum. Boil until the syrup is one string consistency. Strain through muslin and keep aside.
For rice, put about 3 litre of water in a pan, add all the ingredients except rice under heading ’rice’. Boil for about 10 minutes to extract flavour of the spices. Then strain the flavoured water through a sieve to remove the whole spices. Pour this water in a deep vessel or bhagona and place it back on the fire. Add washed and drained rice in it. Parboil it on slow fire. Drain through a colander.
Boil sugar syrup in a heavy bottomed pan. Add rice and ‘josh’ (boil) for a minute. Remove the pan from the fire cover and seal with flour dough and put on ‘dum’ for about ½ hour. Shake the pan to check whether the moisture is fully absorbed. Open the lid.
To finish, pour pour hot desi ghee, bhuna khoya and saffron ground in kewra jal. Mix well and serve hot or at room temperature, garnished with slivers of pistachios and almonds and silver foil. *
When I tried to make syrup for zarda for the
first time it turned out to be something u would use as a wax.
Then I found this other so much easier recipe.
ingredients
rice 2 cups
sugar 5 cups
oil ( I forgot) :(( use common sense)
raisins etc (^)
1- boil rice, leave it a bit kachay like u would for biryani
2- make layers of rice, sugar, oil, food color
3- let it simmer on low heat for a while
And if u have cooked rice before u will know when to turn the stove off. :)
let me know how it turns out. :)