Recipe: Yummy Persian saffron rice pudding (Sholeh zard)

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Persian saffron rice pudding (Sholeh zard). Sholeh and Shilah mean a pudding-like texture. This popular Persian dessert is made on all sorts of occasions in Iran I have also added a few dried edible rose petals for color. Enjoy this all time favorite traditional fragrant Saffron Rice Pudding called Sholeh Zard or as.

Persian saffron rice pudding (Sholeh zard) Once I was ready to make the recipe, low and behold I noticed that one element was missing from Iran joon's Sholeh Zard. No where in the recipe that my mom sent. Hello everyone, today my Persian friend Marzieh is showing us how to make a traditional Iranian Dessert called Sholeh Zard. You can have Persian saffron rice pudding (Sholeh zard) using 10 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Persian saffron rice pudding (Sholeh zard)

  1. You need 1 cup of rice.
  2. You need 9 cups of water.
  3. It's 1 1/5 cups of sugar.
  4. You need 1/4 cup of rose water.
  5. You need 3 TBSP of saffron water.
  6. You need 1 Tsp of cardamom.
  7. You need 1/2 cup of silvered or flaked almonds.
  8. You need of For garnishing.
  9. It's of Silvered almonds.
  10. Prepare of Ground Cinnamon.

Wash the rice in a bowl and drain the water. This will help you get rid of the excess starch. Sprinkle ground saffron over ice cubes and let it melt at room temperature. This sweet Persian rice pudding called sholeh zard is made with three distinct ingredients: saffron, cardamom and rosewater.

Persian saffron rice pudding (Sholeh zard) instructions

  1. Wash the rice in cold water and drain it. Bring the water to a boil and cook the rice at a medium heat until tender. It would take about 30 minutes..
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  3. After half an hour, add sugar to the rice and cook for another 30 minutes until become dense..
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  5. After 30 minutes, add rose water, cardamom and silvered/flaked almonds and saffron water to the rice..
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  9. Gently mix..
  10. Leave the rice to cook on low heat for final 20-30 minutes..
  11. Once pudding is ready, garnish with slivered almonds and ground cinnamon and served chilled..
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It's delicate in flavor but so deeply aromatic that it's hard to stop eating it. Sholeh Zard is a Persian saffron rice pudding made with basmati rice, sugar, cardamom, rosewater and saffron. It is garnished with cinnamon, pistachios and Sholeh zard is still creamy because the rice is cooked until it is soft and starchy. Butter is added at the end to give a little more creaminess. Persian Saffron Rice Pudding, or Sholeh Zard, is rice pudding like you've never had before.