Recipe 1 - Wild Wild Fest

Wild Wild Fest

Wild rice blended with jaggery, garnished with cashews & raisins

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup wild rice
• 3 1-inch jaggery cubes
• few cashewnuts, raisins
• water
• ghee
• salt

Method:

• pressure cook wild rice in the ratio 1:2.5. Add 1/2 teaspoon ghee & a pinch of salt.
• heat up another bowl, set 1 cup of water to boil, add the 3 jaggery cubes, keep stirring until the water color turns darker
• pour the cooked rice into the jaggery water & mix well
• heat another pan, add 2 teaspoons of ghee; once heated, add cashews; once cashews turn goldish, remove from fire & add raisins; pour this into the above rice & mix well
• serve hot/cold

Notes:

• Remember, wild rice takes more time to get cooked than regular white rice