Recipe: To Try At Home Kanika/Flavoured Sweet Rice

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Kanika/Flavoured Sweet Rice. Kanika is a mildly sweet fragrant rice flavored with some spices and ghee (the clarified butter) loaded with cashew nuts and raisins and is colored with the turmeric. The basic feature of the rice is the well separated puffed grains embellished with a perfect shine from the Ghee. Kanika is a sweet pulao or sweet rice made with ghee, basmati rice and sugar, and dry fruits.

Kanika is a temple food from Jagannath Dham ,Puri.

A sweet fragrant rice from Odisha.

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You can have Kanika/Flavoured Sweet Rice using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kanika/Flavoured Sweet Rice

1. Prepare 1 cup of rice.

2. It’s 1/2 cup of jagerry.

3. Prepare 1/3 cup of ghee.

4. You need 15-20 of raisins.

5. It’s 2 stick of cinnamon.

6. You need 4 of cloves.

7. You need 1 of black cardamom.

8. Prepare 15-20 of black pepper.

9. It’s 4 of green cardamom.

10. It’s 1 tbsp of cumin seeds.

11. Prepare 1/8 part of of the nutmeg.

12. You need 3:5 of cup water.

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Kanika/Flavoured Sweet Rice step by step

1. Take a rice properly washed and soaked..

2. Take 3:5 cup water in the clay pot and place the clay pot in low to medium flame..

3. Put all the dry spices in blending jar. Take a small piece of nutmeg and jeera..

4. Cover the jar and make powder it. Add 1 tsp sugar and again grind it..

5. Check out water add dry spice powder..

6. Add raisins, soaked rice and dont mix it and no need to use spatula..

7. Cover the pot and cook in medium to low flame..

8. Remove the lid and add jaggery and ghee..

9. Now cover the pot for 5 minutes and cook it in low flame..

10. After 5 minutes remove the lid and check it. Switch off the flame..

11. And cover the clay pot for 30 minutes. The remaining water in rice is cooked with heat of clay pot..

12. After 30 minutes the kanika is ready for serving. Add tulsi leaves and serve to god as a bhog..

Kanika is a pulao recipe which is prepared during festivals in Odisha.

It is a perfect example of spiced and sweet recipe.

The presence of spices gives the recipe a special flavour.

The aroma of Desi ghee makes this recipe a very exceptional one.

Kanika is a pulao recipe which is prepared during festivals in Orissa.