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9. Kesar waale mitthe chaawal (Sweet Rice)
Ingredients Amount
Rice (must be soaked for 1 hour) 1 katori (100g)
Sunflower oil or Ghee 1 tbsp (15g)
Water 2 tea cup ( 300ml)
Cardamom (Powder) 1 (Optional)
Sugar 1 katori (75g)
Saffron (Kesar) A few strands
Cloves (Laung) 1-2
Green cardamoms (Chhoti Illaichi) 1-2
Fresh coconut (Optional) 1 tbsp (5gm)
 
Method
 
  Make sugar syrup by boiling 3/4th cup water and 1 katori sugar in a small pan. Stir in between. Remove from fire as soon as syrup boils. Keep aside. Add kesar.
  Heat ghee in a big heavy bottomed pan. Reduce heat.
  Add chhoti illaichi and laung. Stir fry for a few seconds till illaichi changes colour.
  Add grated coconut (Optional) and stir for 5 minutes.
  To prepare rice, discard water from soaked rice and cook. Mix gently so that the rice grains do not break. Add 1½ cups of water. Boil.
  Reduce flame. Keep a tawa under the pan of rice, simmer gas. Cook for about 10 minutes till the water gets absorbed.
  Add the kesar waala sugar syrup.mix lightly with a fork.
  Cover and cook further on low heat till rice are done and the syrup gets absorbed.
   
Variation – You may use boiled mashed potatoes in place of bottle gourd (Dudhi) to prepare potato halwa.
Serving: 4 person
Nutritive Value
Serving Energy
(kcal)
Protein
(g)
CH0
(g)
Fat
(g)
Na
(mg)
K
(mg)
Phos
(mg)
Iron
(mg)
Ca
(mg)
1 179 2 38 2 3.5 - 74 0.8 6
 
  Suitable for renal failure patients.
  Unsuitable for patient with uncontrolled Diabetes.
*Should be avoided by diabetics. In place of sugar, diabetics can make use of ‘Sugar free’.