Or meetha pulao whatever its called… can someone please give me a tried and tested recipe for it? Thanks 
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Come on, im sure one of the ladies here knows how to cook up a mean zarda! Help me outtttt :(
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Ok u want the easy recipe or the lonnnng one
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This is the plain one, U can add almonds pitachios or some mithahi stuff later
But Boil Rice with yellow color and a bit oil
when they are 3/4 done
in another pan make sheera with sugar and a bit water till it reaches saturation point. Also add alaichi
Mix and let them Damm
Add almonds afterwards
I used to make it a lot for my younger one almost weekly.She used tolove it.
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ingredients
2 cups rice
1/2 cup oil
5 cardamoms
3 cup water
1 cup sugar
Edible food colors (orange, yellow, blue, pink & green)- mixed a pinch in a few drops of water, each.
Halved almonds
Desiccated coconut
Method
Soak rice in water for an hr.
In a deep cooking pot, warm up, oil, cardamoms and sugar and heat to a boil. After preparing the syrup, remove it into a cup. Pour the syrup in the 2 cups of remaining water. Add rice to this water and boil until water is ready to be drained and the rice are almost cooked. Add prepared edible colors – orange, yellow, blue, pink & green. Carefully pour edible colors on the rice, on separate patches. Lid and let the rice get steam cooked until moisture is gone. With spoon, turn rice over a couple of times so that they are mixed and look colorful.
In a clear dish, spread the meetheye rice and garnish with halved or slivered almonds and dessicated coconut.
Enjoy!
Dushwari
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In a deep cooking pot, warm up, oil, cardamoms and sugar and heat to a boil.
dushwari, are u suppose to add water in the line above, cz otherwise sugar will caramelise...
and is the recipe for yellow zarda different from this or u jus add yellow food colour instead of all these.
thanks. :)
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This is the plain one, U can add almonds pitachios or some mithahi stuff later But Boil Rice with yellow color and a bit oil when they are 3/4 done in another pan make sheera with sugar and a bit water till it reaches saturation point. Also add alaichi Mix and let them Damm Add almonds afterwards I used to make it a lot for my younger one almost weekly.She used tolove it.
For people like me ...student ... this is the easiest way .. cos this is how i make it ...................
Now reading this .. is making me hungry ......wana make it ...:D
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^me too, i relally want it nowww
n i actually plans r to get it made someeeeeehow 
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To me sheera recipe is longer and more complicated.
So I go with the following. I can’t remember the exact ratios but will try.
1 cup rice
1 cup oil
1 1/2 to 2 cups sugar
3-4 different food colors
Handful of raisins, sliced coconut, almonds etc
Boil rice till a bit “kasar”. Meaning don’t boil it all the way.
Do layers of rice, sugar, oil, food colors, and the dry fruits. Keep on du’m
for a little bit. You will have to check and see when they are done.
That’s pretty much it. Now wasn’t that easy?
You have just made me crave zarda. Looks like I will have to make
some tomorrow and ruin my diet. 
Hai mai kithay javan. 
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What type of rice? Nobody mentioned that! They should be basmsati saila (easy cook basmati rice). It is better to soak them for about 4 hours in cold water.
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The colour should be orange not the yellow one! They call it Zarday ka rang! It is made from fragrant flowers of "Har singhar"
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what flower is that 
or you mean “gainday ka phool”
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Lovely fragrant flowers of harsinghar!
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The orange stigma is used to make the original "zarday ka rang"!
We have few trees of har singhar in our area.
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they are beautiful :jano:
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The fragrance is awesome! From Dusk to Dawn! There is saying about them that snake likes the fragrance and lives on this tree!
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Anyone likes khurchan? I especially ask my mom to make khurchan...
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Anyone likes khurchan? I especially ask my mom to make khurchan...
hehehe...i love that LUSI...!!...and i thought it was a weird thing,but i guess not....!
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lol... no it is not wired.. actually there was a time when I used to eat only khurchan and dried fruits/nuts from the zarda :D I think its been few years that I have started eating the actual zarda and not only khurchan lol
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thnx…bata deya..