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Mutanjan recipe

Mutanjan recipe

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Mutanjan is a kind of sweet rice made with basmati rice, sugar, milk, desi ghee and nuts.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Pakistani
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

FOR COOKING RICE

  • 1.5 Cup Basmati Rice or Basmati Sella Rice
  • 2 green cardamoms
  • 4 cloves
  • Small piece of lemon
  • 4 cup water

FOR COLOURING RICE

  • Few drops of green food colour
  • Few drops of red food colour
  • Few drops of yellow food colour
  • 3 tbsp cooked rice (1 tbsp for each colour)
  • 3 tbsp water (1 tbsp for each colour)

FOR MAKING MUTANJAN

  • Cooked rice
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 green cardamoms
  • 1/4 cup full fat milk
  • 4 tbsp desi ghee
  • 1/4 cup almonds (blanched)
  • 1/4 cup cashews
  • 2 tbsp pistachios (blanched)
  • 2 tbsp raisins
  • 1/4 cup dry coconut slivers
  • 1/4 cup Tutti Frooti/Ashrafis
  • 50 gram Khoya/evaporated milk
  • 2 tbsp saffron soaked milk
  • 1 tsp kewra water
  • 1 tbsp dry rose petals
  • Colourful rice
  • 8-10 pieces of colorful petha or rasgulla

Instructions
 

COOKING OF RICE

  • Take rice and wash them.
  • Soak them for 30 minutes.
  • Take a pan and add water, cardamoms, cloves, star anise and lemon in it.
  • Let the water come to boil.
  • Discard the water from rice.
  • Add rice to the boiling water.
  • Cook until they are 90% cooked.
  • Drain the water.
  • Spread rice in a wide plate or tray. Discard the piece of lemon.
  • Discard the piece of lemon.

COLOURING OF RICE

  • Take 3 bowls and add few drops of red, yellow and green food colour in each bowl.
  • NOTES : If you don't have 3 colours, then take bowls as many as colours you have.
  • Also mix water in each food colour.
  • Put 1 tbsp of cooked rice in each bowl and keep aside so that rice get coloured.

MAKING OF MUTANJAN

  • Take a pan and add desi ghee in it.
  • Add almonds and cashews.
  • Roast for a minute .
  • Then add pistachios, raisins and coconut slivers.
  • Roast for a minute.
  • Take the roasted nuts out of pan.
  • Add green cardamoms, sugar and milk.
  • Let sugar dissolve completely.
  • Add cooked rice.
  • Also add khoya.
  • Mix and cook on high heat for 3-4 minutes or until milk is evaporated and khoya melts.
  • Pour saffron soaked milk and kewra water.
  • Top with roasted nuts (reserve some for garnish), khoya pieces here & there and tutti fruity.
  • Put the colourful rice on the white rice, keeping a distance from one another. Drain the extra water if there's any.
  • Cover the pan with a cloth, put a lid and cook on dum for 10 minutes on lowest heat.
  • Switch off the heat and let the pan remain as it is for 5 minutes.
  • Remove the lid.
  • First mix the colourful rice in themselves.
  • Thereafter mix the entire batch of rice gently.
  • Put the rice in a serving dish and arrange in a way that every colour appears significantly.
  • Top with more roasted nuts, colourful petha, tutti fruity, dry rose petals , saffron and silver varq.

Notes

  1. You can also use already cooked plain rice for this recipe. Replace 3 cups of cooked rice with 1.5 cup of raw rice.
  2. You can increase or decrease the quantity of sugar as per your choice. For us, it was perfectly fine.
  3. In place of petha, you can use rasgulla, gulab jamun or chum chum as well.
  4. For coloring the sweet, just mix the food colour with them and they will get the colour. Simple. 
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