Sweet Rice.... Zarda

[Cricket_Guru]

Ingredients:
Basmati rice-1 cup
Milk-1 cup
Cardamom-4
Salt a pinch
Sugar-1&1/2 cups (alter to one's taste)
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Food color(red)- a pinch
Cashewnuts-10
Grated coconut-1 cup

Method:
Soak rice for an hour. Cook with milk, salt and little water (if necessary). In a sauce pan, make sugar syrup with little water. To this add the cooked rice, color, 1 tbsp ghee, cardamom and stir for 10 minutes in low flame till all water is absorbed. Fry cashew nuts and coconut in 1 tbsp ghee to a golden color and add to the rice mixture.