SAFFRON RICE

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup khoya

2 cups boiled rice

2 tbsp milk

few threads of saffron

3-4 cardamom

3-4 cloves

8 -10 pieces of cashew nuts

8 -10 almonds chopped

8 -10 pistachios finely chopped

1 tbsp raisins

2 tbsp ghee

½ cup sugar

METHOD:

1. Put the saffron in hot milk and keep it aside so that saffron dissolves in milk to form a nice color.

2. Heat ghee in a pan, fry cashews, almonds, raisins, and pistachios and keep them separately.

3. Now put cloves and cardamom in the same pan and fry and add sugar, saffron milk, khoya and mix all the ingredients nicely.

4. Add cooked rice and mix well, close the lid and let it cook on low flame for a few minutes.

5. Mix roasted nuts and take off the gas.

6. Serve the hot saffron rice by garnishing it with dry fruits and saffron.

KESARIYA SHRIKHAND

INGREDIENTS:

500 grams of fresh curd

50 grams of ground sugar

10-15 threads of saffron

1 teaspoon to soak saffron lukewarm milk

3-4 cardamom green cardamom powder

5-6 finely chopped pistachios

5-6 finely chopped almonds -

METHOD:

1. Tie fresh curd in a clean muslin cloth and hang it for 2-3 hours, press it with your hands to remove all the water from the curd.

2. Put the saffron in lukewarm milk and keep it aside.

3. Take out the curd from the cloth in a utensil, add sugar and cardamom powder and mix well.

4. Now, add saffron milk to the curd mixture and mix well. Add half the almonds and pistachios and mix.

5. Kesariya Shrikhand is ready! Put the Shrikhand in the fridge for two hours.

6. Lastly, take out Shrikhand in a bowl and garnish it with the dry fruits and serve it cold.

POORAN POLI

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups flour

2 tbsp ghee for moyan

half teaspoon salt

For Stuffing:

1 cup channa dal

½ cup sugar

3-4 green cardamom

finely chopped nuts as desired

desi ghee for roasting

METHOD:

1. After sifting the flour, add moyan and salt to knead a t soft dough. Keep the dough covered for half an hour.

2. Soak channa dal in water for two hours.

3. Now, boil the dal in a pressure cooker until it is cooked properly. After this, put it in a strainer so that excess water comes out of it.

3. Grind the lentil without adding water, put a little ghee in a frying pan, and roast the lentil on medium heat.

4. Now, add sugar, green cardamom, and finely chopped dry fruits and roast for five minutes while stirring continuously, remove from the gas and let it cool.

5. Make balls of dough, stuff the stuffing into it, and spread it a little with your hands, then with the help of a rolling pin, roll it into a roti shape with light hands.

6. Put it on a hot griddle and apply desi ghee on both sides until it becomes red and crisp. Bake all the puran polis in the same way.

7. Your hot and tempting Puran Poli is ready to be served!