Happy Basant Panchami to all. Basant Panchami is known for painting everything in yellow. So yellow rice or kesariya bhaat.
Ingredients:
- One bowl of rice
- 3/4th bowl of sugar
- 1/2 bowl milk for soaking saffron
- 8-10 strands saffron
- 4-5 cardamom
- 6-7 whole black pepper
- 4-5 cloves
- two tbsp desi ghee
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
- dry fruits of own choice
Method:
First wash and soak rice for half an hour. In between boil water in a large vessel for boiling the rice. Cook the soaked rice in this water. Rice will be cooked only 80 percent. When rice get cooked sieve it and leave it to get cool.
Now take thick bottom pan and add desi ghee into it and put all the spices and coarsely chopped dry fruits.
Fry them then add cooked rice and sugar into it. Mix well. Now add saffron milk into it and cover it to cook for 10 mins at very slow flame.
After 10 mins open the pan and here it is . The yummy tasty kesariya bhaat to serve hot.