Shole Zard Recipe

Ingredients

1. Rice : 2 cups
2. Sugar : 1 cup
3. Water : 3 cups
4. Butter : 100 gr
5. Saffron : 1 teaspoon
6. Cardamom and rosewater : to enough quantities

Instructions

• First wash the rice. Pour the saucepan with water and put on heat. Then pour rice and continually stir to soften.
• Then add butter, cardamom and saffron. When rice softens enough take it away from heat.
• Now add rosewater to make it odorant and let to cool.
• Then serve in bowl and decorate with cinnamon, almond, walnut and pistachio slices.
• To get best color, never add saffron directly, but brew it then add to Shole zard. Pay attention to add saffron before adding sugar.
• Otherwise rice grains aren’t colored uniform that is cause of sugar glair.

More information

prepTime : 45 minutes

cookTime : 1 hour

source : Shole Zard Recipe