Name: Sweet Yellow Rice (Zarda)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon liquid yellow food colouring (optional); 15 g/½ oz blanched, slivered almonds; 1 tablespoon sultanas; 275 ml/9½ fl oz water; 90 g/3¼ oz sugar, to taste; 4 cardamom pods; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon saffron threads; 2 tablespoons warm milk; 2.5 cm/1 inch cinnamon stick; enough basmati rice to fill a glass measuring jug to the 225 ml/8 fl oz level; 50 g/1¾ oz ghee, or unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery

By Madhur Jaffrey

Published 2023

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This wonderful, shining rice may be eaten by itself, with hot, spicy Indian dishes or even with English foods such as baked ham and roast goose.

Saffron does give this dish a very special flavour, but if you are on a tight budget and find saffron a bit too expensive, just leave it (and the milk) out and increase the yellow food colouring to 1 teaspoon.