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Saffron & Rosewater Rice Pudding
Updated: Aug 14
This is an absolutely delicious dessert made with lots of saffron, almonds, pistachios and rosewater with a sprinkling of cinnamon on top.
Close your eyes and eat this, it’s like walking through a rose garden.
Ingredients
3/4 cups rice (I used basmati)
5 cups water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Pinch of salt
3/4 cup white granulated sugar
5 tbsp rosewater
1/4 tsp ground saffron
1/4 cup mixed slivers of pistachio and almond
dried rose petals (optional to decorate)
cinnamon (optional to decorate)
Method
Step 1
Wash the rice in a medium sized pan and cover with 5 cups of cold water.
Place over medium heat and allow the rice to cook thoroughly.
Add the ground saffron.
Step 2
Mix the saffron into the rice and continue cooking on a low heat until the rice becomes mushy and pudding like.
Add the sugar, pistachio and almond slivers and mix.
Step 3
Finally add the rosewater and mix.
Remove from the heat and pour into a serving bowl.
You can garnish the Sholezard with cinnamon and dry roses.
Enjoy eating this either warm or cold.