Gur Sweetened Rice

Ingredients

1. Rice – 1 cup
2. Gur – 3/4 cup
3. Whole spice – 2 peppercorns, 1 bay leaf, 2 cloves
4. Green cardamom powder – pinch
5. Fennel seeds (saunf) – 1 pinch
6. salt – 1/2 tsp
7. Dry fruits – raisins, cashews, almonds – chopped, fried if required

Methodology

1. Wash and soak rice for around 30 min.
2. Around the same time or overnight, also soak jaggery in 1 cup water. If in hurry, just heat up the water enough for the jaggery to dissolve completely.
3. In little ghee/oil, add whole spices then dry fruits.
4. followed by rice, salt and fennel seeds.
5. Half cook rice in 2 cups water.
6. Add jaggery soaked water into the rice and cardamom powder.
7. Cook like normal rice thereafter.
8. Adjust water per the consistency required.
9. Take care to not cook on high as jaggery gets burnt easily.

Reference:

1. http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/jaggery-rice-recipe-gur-walay-chawal