Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pineapple zarda. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Try this Pineapple Zarda Pulao, also known as Zafrani Pulao, is a Sweet rice dish prepared with pineapple pieces. Sweetened Rice is quite well known dish among Muslims. It's a delicious combination of fruit and rice.
Pineapple Zarda is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Pineapple Zarda is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pineapple zarda using 12 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pineapple Zarda:
- Make ready 1 cup Basmati rice
- Take 1+ 1/2 cup Pineapple juice (I used bottled pure pineapple juice)
- Take 1 cup fresh pineapple cubes
- Take 5-6 strands Saffron/Kesr
- Get 2-3 tablespoon Milk
- Prepare 1 handful dry fruits like cashews, almonds, walnuts & raisins
- Prepare 2 tablespoon Ghee
- Get 1 Cardamom
- Prepare 2-3 Cloves
- Prepare 1 small piece of Cinnamon
- Take 3-4 drops Kewra water
- Prepare to taste Salt
I've shared an orange flavored Zarda pulao here before. The pineapple one is something my mom used to make all the time and I love it. How to Make Pineapple Zarda Pulao Wash the rice and drain well. Heat the Ghee in a thick bottomed pan.
Instructions to make Pineapple Zarda:
- Take 1 cup of basmati rice, rinse and soak for half an hour.
- Take 1 cup of pineapple juice in a saucepan with 1/4th teaspoon of salt, and 1 cup of water. Bring to boil.
- Cook the rice in pineapple water upto 90% done.
- Drain the 90% done rice to a colander.
- Heat 1 tablespoon ghee to a heavy bottomed saucepan and fry some dry fruits and raisins. Transfer to a dish.
- In the same pan add in 1 more tablespoon of ghee and temper 2-3 cloves, 1 cardamom and a small piece of cinnamon.
- Add in 1/2 cup of pineapple juice and 2 tablespoon of sugar.
- Stir well to dissolve the sugar completely.
- Add in the pineapple chunks and mix well to the juice.
- Cook for 5-6 minutes so that pineapples become soft.
- Soak some saffron strands with 2 tablespoons of warm milk.
- Now add in the cooked rice over the pineapple pieces.
- Sprinkle the saffron soaked milk over the rice.
- Keep flame in low heat, stir gently.
- Also add in 3-4 drops of kewra water and cover with a lid. Cook in low heat for about 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes remove from heat, add in the fried nuts and give a gentle stir. Aromat pineapple zarda is ready now.
- Transfer to serving dish and serve at room temperature.
Zarda Pulao is basically sweet rice, made with a few select spices and dry fruits. Different flavourings can be used, like saffron, cardamoms, cinnamon, rose etc. It is generally served at weddings, Hindu festivals, Eid and other special occasions. Add the pineapple pieces, essence, color and turn the switch to warm position. Fresh pineapple in season can be used.
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