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30 min — 10 min prep, 20 min cooking.

Mahaprasad Kanika

Name: Mahaprasad Kanika
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Odisha Indian
Ingredients: 3g salt; 5g Ginger; 30g Cashew Nuts; 60g Ghee; 120g sugar; 300g rice; 0.2g Saffron; 30g raisins; 600g Water; 2g Green Cardamom; 1g Cloves; 2g cinnamon stick; 1g Tejpat (Indian Bay Leaf)

Sweet saffron rice cooked with ghee, cashews, and raisins. Jagannath temple festive prasad.

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Time 30 min · Serves 4 · 590 kcal · Puri, Odisha

Ingredients

Main

salt — 3 g
Ginger — 5 g
Cashew Nuts — 30 g
Ghee — 60 g
sugar — 120 g
rice — 300 g
Saffron — 0.2 g
raisins — 30 g
Water — 600 g

Tempering

Green Cardamom — 2 g
Cloves — 1 g
cinnamon stick — 2 g
Tejpat (Indian Bay Leaf) — 1 g

Method

Wash rice, soak for 20 minutes, drain and spread to dry.
Soak saffron in 2 spoons of warm water.
Heat ghee. Fry cashews and raisins until golden. Keep aside.
Add bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and grated ginger to the ghee.
Add rice and fry gently for 3 minutes.
Add hot water, salt and saffron water. Cover and cook until rice is nearly done.
Add sugar and mix gently. Cook covered until dry.
Mix in fried cashews and raisins. Rest 5 minutes and serve.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Mahaprasad Kanika?: 590 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 30 min — 10 min prep, 20 min cooking.

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