How to Make Perfect Zarda (sweet pineapple rice)

Zarda (sweet pineapple rice).

You can have Zarda (sweet pineapple rice) using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Zarda (sweet pineapple rice)

1. You need 400 gms of basmati rice.
2. It's 500 gms of sugar.
3. It's 1 of pineapple cut into peices.
4. Prepare of cashews and cherries.
5. It's cloves of whole green cardmom, cinnamon.
6. It's 200 gms of pure ghee.

Zarda (sweet pineapple rice) instructions

1. Take a vessel,add pineaople peices and sugar,add water,just enough to cover pineapple,cook till sugar dissolves,cook furthur for 10 min,add 1tbs lemon yellow colour,keep it aside.
2. Soak rice for half an hour.
3. Heat water,when it comes to boil add rice and salt,cook till 3/4 done,strain,keep it aside..
4. Take broad pan,add ghee,fry cashews,remove and keep it aside,in the same ghee add boiled rice,stir gently,add cooked pineapple,cook till water evaporates,add cashews and cherries,put it on dum,on slow flame till rice is done(u can add pineapple essence to rice whike cooking)...garnish with cherries..