OLIYA, SWEET YOGHURT RICE

OLIYA is a pudding with rice and yoghurt with lots of dry fruits in it and is a festive dish.    If you wish, you can also put fresh fruits in it.  This dish  I tasted from my neighbour who is a Jain Marwadi.  She always share with us whatever she made and this dish was new to me. Today, they are supposed to have only cold food for which they make the same on the previous day and keep in fridge. The festival is called Shitla Satam.

We used to have Pal chadam ie. Rice with milk and sugar or sugar candy added in  curd rice.  But this I never thought would taste so good. Though we make sweet lassi, I did not even think of making this rice.

It is really tasty and you would also love this.  Once in a while, you can switch over to this dish rather than having the regular curd rice.

Let us look at the recipe now:

OLIYA, SWEET YOGHURT RICE

Ingredients:

1 cup Plain rice or basmati
1 ltr Thick yoghurt (fresh and sour)
150  200 gms sugar
1/2 cup dry fruits chopped - kaju, badam, pista, raisins
a pinch of saffron
6-7 cardamom
 

Method:

1.   Wash and cook the rice with one and half  cup water.  Cook the same directly on gas top.  It should be bit mushy.

 2.   Allow to cool.  Mash the rice, add sugar mix well.

3.  Add the curd, mix well.  According to the required consistency, you can use the yoghurt.

4.  Add little hot water in saffron and keep for sometime.  Add this to the rice mix, add the dry fruits, mix well.

5.  Refrigerate it for 3-4 hours and serve.


  NOTE:  According to your requirement, you can increase decrease the quantity of sugar.

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