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Actually there's not much water..as binte wrote you need only a few spoons of water...the sugar will melt and will be enough syrupy to cover rice easily..
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… ok , i will try it then tomorrow inshallah … the syrup way… 
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hope it turns out yummy..I know you’ll be able to handle it if anything starts to go disastrous 
Hey guys if theres one thing i always mess up on is zarda 
the mistake i make is the rice end up either too hard or too fluffy, can someone please clarify and please don’t say “andase se” cause someone who messes it up all the time has no idea what “andasa” is.
Also can someone please tell me the how to make the rice all different colours cause i the few attempts iv had iv ended up with more white rice than any other colours.
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Clothesmad it takes a bit of a practice to know just how much you need to boil the rice..did take me some time too.. the thing with sweet rice is that once rice are added to sugar they don't soften as much as they would normally in a dum. For Zarda I boil them a little more than half-done.
For more colored rice..use the base of a cup/glass/anything round and make slight depressions on top layer of boiled rice before putting it on dum.. spread different food colors in each circle with a spoon... be sure to cover the whole circle..then put rice on dum....this way when you mix rice in the end you'll see that colors will be distributed more evenly. hope it helps :)
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wow masi that was such a fantastic idea .. I got only two colours lemon yellow and pale yellow :hinna: I will try them both 
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yum yum.
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pareezay want some? 
Come over 
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i do, i do!
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Fine , the offer stands … zarda or zarda kheer ( depends if the rice turn out looking like rice or kheer :hinna: ) will be ready by this evening inshallah
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Ok, the zarda looks like zarda … now i am waiting for husband to return from work , taste it and tell me if its actually a good zarda … watch this space
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Report back sergeant! :D
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erm so yeah … the zarda just looked like Zarda , didnt taste fantastic …but wasnt bad either:hinna: … he said “good try” …
Now, my own take on it : Please bear in mind i havnt had zarda ever in my life , so i dont really know the actual taste of it , so correct me if i am wrong in assuming a few things :
1- Even though i put the zarda on dum for a good 20 minutes , I still felt that the sugar hadnt really absorbed really well into the rice … though husband felt they had , but I thought i could still feel the "boiled rice " Taste … I dunno if i am making any sense here 
2- The nuts used in the zarda, husband and me were bickering over pistachio.. I said no one puts pista is zarda .. he said how would you know you never had it 
… and please also clarify if walnuts can be added?
3- He poured some cream on the zarda and had it … and then was telling me that sometimes in pakistan ladies add cream to the zarda during the cooking process and that gives it a heavenly taste.. what was that all about???
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**:o Good Try unhe to treef kerni chaiye thy :o
kune k same recipe main ne 1st time banayee thy to sab s einaam mila tha 100,200 k mash Allah bohat mazay k banay :o
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
poochna tha na ap ne bhayee se kuch kami hayn to btayein
:o
bilkul nahi cream to use he nahi hoti aapi zarda main bhayee ais ekais ekeh skate hayn
pakistan main zimple zarda agar banayein to same yehi tareek hay mena in punjab
Cream use hote to nahid kehi main ne :o**
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My mum puts Kalakand in zarda and omg it taste like ALOTTTTT better
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I’ve never used cream in Zarda although I love to put it on top of it when eating. I also love yogurt with zarda 
Hmm so the probs.. I don’t know why rice didn’t absorb the sweetness..never had this prob..was it sweet enough otherwise?
I put pistachios, almonds and cashew nuts along with coconut slices/dessicated cocunet in zarda ..I think it’s a personal choice no rule there.. I don’t like sultanas so don’t use it although many people do.. People also add chum chum/qalaqand and those red and green fruit muraba (dunno it’s english name).. You can make it as rich as you like but Binte’s recipe is the basics of it.
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Yeah , I think its not the recipe thats the ultimate issue , maybe its practice , since i made it first time , I did come out acceptable , but a few more times practice will just give me an idea of the itsybitsy things
I still think Bint , your recipe was fantastic , coz i did get perfect colour and shakal of the zarda .. the taste was also great , say if i add some dry milk powder , like nido , two tablespoons after mixing the rice in the sugar … will it spoil the taste? usually i do this trick with the gajar halwa to get the khoya taste and it works well in it…
Let me know please?
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**main baa dmain aa ker tafseel s ebtati hoon ap btaiye ga ap ne smae ais ehe kiya tha???
main zara shower le aaun sara din light ka amsla aur ab ja ekr light aayi moter lagayi :(
brb main shower le ekr atai hoon phir bata kerti hoon
lub u siso
Fi aman ALLAH**
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** sis ap k chawlon ki miqdar kitni thy mena jitni miqdar likhi ham ne us k mutabiq thy
2nd
food colour jo ap ne use kiya tha kya chawal dalrne aur aik akni k baad jab ap en chawal nikale to colour same tha????
3rd
cheeni jab apa ne oil main fry ki to pani ka chinta kitna dala tha
aur ilaichi ko sahi us main bhuna tha kune k ilaichi ki khushboo ana must hay
then chawal jo k aik kani thay
aap ne woh cheeni mixer main dale to chawlon ko fold ke rk kitne min dam per rkaha
5,8 min?? then aap en chawlaon ko iktyat s epalta tha k achi trah se dam lage
dudh tab add kerna hay jab ap ko alge chwal sakht hay like boiled rice jaise naram nahi tab khushk dud nahi dusra dudh use kerna hay
aur badaam chilka utra aur pista jab ap en chawal fold kerne hayn mena sheere main tab nuts (badam,pista,kishmish) add ki thy ya dam k waqt bus uper se chirak diya
ap yeh btayein then mujeh btayein k ap k hubby ko taste main faraq laga or daikhne main colour ka kuch masla tha
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baqi dont worry sonu sis
1st time kayi chizin theek nahi banti :)
ahista ahsita try ekrne se ban jati hayn:)
wais emazay ki baat btaun jo recipe share ki woh main ne 1st time banaye thay :d mast bane to socha recipe share keroon
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YES!
I thought my family were the only crazies out there - we love to pair plain yogurt with zarda - it is such a complementary flavour - it cuts the sweetness of the zarda without overpowering it - it’s the best combo out there! YUMMY!
As for the mithai in zarda - when we got the fancy route - you can put mini rasgullas in the zarda - that tastes really good.