Ingredients
1 cup rice (chawal)
2 pinches of saffron (kesar) strands
2 tbsp cranberries
1/4 cup dates
3 tomatoes, sliced
1 1/2 cups mixed vegetables
1 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
a little milk/curd
4 tbsp ghee
salt to taste
To be ground into a paste
3 cloves of garlic (lehsun)
25 mm. piece ginger (adrak)
3 cardamoms (elaichi)
3 green chillies
3 cloves (laung / lavang)
2 sticks cinnamon (dalchini)
1/2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1 onion
For baking
2 tbsp ghee
Method
- You can take cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, green peas as the mixed vegetables.
- Boil the rice. Each grain of the cooked rice should be separate. Drain and cool.
- Warm the saffron in a small vessel, add a little water and rub until it dissolves.
- Add the saffron liquid and salt to the cooked rice. Mix well.
- Heat the ghee and fry dates and cranberries
- In the same ghee, add the paste and fry for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the tomatoes fry again for 2 to 3 minutes. If you like, sprinkle a little water. Add the boiled vegetables and cook for a while.
- Put 2 tablespoons of ghee at the bottom of a baking bowl. Make layers of the rice and vegetables, beginning and ending with rice.
- Sprinkle a little milk on top. Cover and bake in a hot oven at 200 degree C (400 degree F) for 15 to 20 minutes.
Crust
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3 tablespoons white
sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon distilled
white vinegar
- 5 tablespoons water
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, and sugar. Mix
well, then cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- In a small bowl, combine egg, vinegar, and 4 tablespoons of
water. Whisk together, then add gradually to flour mixture, stirring with a
fork. Mix until dough forms a ball. Add one more tablespoon of water if
necessary.
- Allow dough to rest in refrigerator 10 minutes before
rolling out
Pie
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted
butter
- 3 tablespoons
all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown
sugar
- 8 Granny Smith apples
- peeled, cored and sliced
Directions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the
butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and
brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
- Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples,
mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work crust. Gently pour the sugar and
butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.
- Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce
the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45
minutes, until apples are soft.
