Sweet Rice

Ingredients: 

• Basmati rice-1 cup 
• Milk-1 cup 
• Cardamom-4 
• Salt a pinch 
• Sugar-1&1/2 cups (alter to one's taste) 
• Ghee - 2 tbsp 
• Food color(red)- a pinch 
• Cashewnuts-10 
• Grated coconut-1 cup 

Method: 

• Soak rice for an hour. 
• Cook with milk, salt and little water (if necessary). 
• In a sauce pan, make sugar syrup with little water. 
• To this add the cooked rice, color, 1 tbsp ghee, cardamom and stir for 10 minutes in low flame till all water is absorbed. 
• Fry cashew nuts and coconut in 1 tbsp ghee to a golden color and add to the rice mixture.