Yellow Rice For Basant Panchami

Ingredients (for 4-5 servings)

1 cup Khoya or mawa

2 cup cooked basmati rice

½ cup sugar

2 tbls warm milk

1 tbls ghee

Few strands of saffron (kesar) or yellow colour

3-4 green cardamom

2-3 clove

6-7 cashew nuts chopped

6-7 almonds chopped

6-7 pistachios chopped

1 tbls raisins

Method

Mix saffron with milk in a bowl and keep aside.

Now heat ghee in pan and fry cashew nuts, almonds, raisins  and pistachios till nice aroma come and keep aside.

Now add green cardamom and clove in same ghee and fry for few seconds, add sugar, saffron dissolve milk and mawa and mix well.

Add boiled basmati rice and mix well, cover the lid for few minutes on low heat.

Mix the fried nuts and raisins,  remove from the heat and serve hot.