Recipe for Hyderabadi Zafrani Pulao
Ingredients
- 2 cups: Rice (long, grained)
- 1/2 cup: Sugar
- 4 tsp: Ghee
- 18-20: Almonds.
- 12-15: Cashew nuts.
- Pinch: Saffron.
- 1/4 tsp: Nutmeg Powder.
- 1/2 tsp: Green Cardamom Powder
Cooking Directions
Wash rice twice and soak in just enough water to cover it for half an hour. Drain excess water.
Place almonds and cashew nuts in a flat microwave dish and cook, uncovered on Microwave medium (70%) for five minutes. Let them cool and thinly slice the almonds. Halve the cashew nuts.
In a deep casserole, mix ghee and rice and cook, uncovered, on Microwave high (100%) for two minutes.
Stir. Cook, uncovered on Microwave high (100%) for two minutes more.
Mix nutmeg powder, green cardamom powder, saffron, raisins and sugar into the rice.
Add three and a half cups of water and milk and stir once.
Cover and cook on Microwave high (100%) for fifteen minutes.
Allow standing time for five minutes.
Garnish with almonds and cashew nuts. Serve hot.
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