Rice Kesari Bath | Sweet Saffron Rice.
You can have Rice Kesari Bath | Sweet Saffron Rice using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Rice Kesari Bath | Sweet Saffron Rice
- Prepare 1/2 cup of basmati rice.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of jeera rice(optional).
- Prepare 3 of large cup or 1/2 kg ghee / clarified butter.
- You need 3 cups of sugar.
- You need 4 of cashew/kaju, halves(optional).
- Prepare 15 of raisins.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of saffron/kesar dipped in milk.
- You need 4 of cloves/lavang, crushed.
- It's of water to just wet the sugar.
Rice Kesari Bath | Sweet Saffron Rice step by step
- Pressure cook basmati rice or jeera rice(I have used half measurement each but jeera rice is optional). let it be 5- 6 whistles.Once the pressure releases naturally, open the lid. Smash the rice well. Keep it ready..
- Now in a large heavy bottomed kadai, add 1 cup of ghee. once it clears add sugar and rice. start stirring on a medium flame for 5 minutes..
- Once sugar melts and rice settles down, add saffron milk, crushed cloves and stir continuously. meanwhile, in a small pan add 1 tbsp ghee and fry raisins till they bulge. similarly, you can fry cashews.while you keep stirring the rice kesaribath, add the raisins and remaining cup of ghee..
- If you feel ghee is less, you can add more. more the ghee tastier..
- After 30 minutes or so rice starts thickening and ghee starts oozing out..
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