Sweet Rice ( Meethe Chawal)

Ingredients:

1) 1 cup rice
2) 1/2 cup sugar
3) almonds, cashew and raisins
4) 3-4 cardamoms
5) half table spoon saffron
6) 2 cups Water to boil the rice
7) 4 table spoons of ghee (purified butter) to fry

Recipe:

1) heat the ghee in a pan and add cardamoms, almonds and cashews and fry for 2-3 minutes.
2) Add rice to it and fry for 5 minutes
3) Add water and sugar to it and let it boil for 20 minutes.
4) Keep on stirring in every 5 minutes.
5) Once the rice it ready, take 5-6 spoons of water and soak saffron in it.
6) Once the water gets the orange color of saffron, take 4-5 spoons of rice and add to the saffron water and let it sit for 10 minutes.
7) After 10 minutes, the rice will get the orange color.
8) Add this orange rice on your white rice and it will give the nice white-orange color.
9) The sweet rice is ready to be served.