Sweet, who doesn’t like sweet before and after any meal?
In our subcontinent, it has a tradition to serve sweets after any meal of any kind of party or occasion. There are different types of sweets in different regions.
In this post, I am writing about a traditional royal sweet/dessert which is very popular in Bangladesh and South Asian countries. It is about Zorda/ Jorda/ sweet rice and in Bengali ‘’জর্দা’’. It looks like a very similar dessert of Turkish dessert dish Zerde. The main element of the sweet is rice and food color. To make it sweet and different taste we add various spices and elements. You can read details about the traditional Zorda in this post of Wikipedia.
It’s a popular food on my family’s sweet list too. A few days ago it was made in my home besides a few other sweets. I like this dessert personally. So I want to share this sweet taste and recipes with my fellows. It looks so colorful for its yellow color because Zorda has its traditional Yellow food color with rice and other elements.
Let’s talk about the ingredients and procedure of this dessert. It is about a homemade recipe and may differ from the professional making process and elements.
Boil 1-liter water with red food color then put wet polao rice into this colored boiled water until the rice turns into half boiled. Then separate rice from the boiling water and collect them for cooling.
Put another pan on the stove. Put ghee/ oil with almonds/peanuts/ both slices, cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom, 1 cup sugar, and half cup water then boil these for mixing.
Put the half-boiled rice in the mix on the pan with a half cup of milk and some orange juice. Then put the stove fire medium for 8-10 minutes to boil the rice fully with mixing other elements of the pan.
It will be ready for serving. Serve it with arranging some dry fruits like almonds, raisins, cherry, and baby sweets. You can add your favorite dry fruits for serving following your taste.
I hope you will try this in your home and share some photos with us after tasting it. You can also share any Zorda/ sweet photography from your own collection!
Photos look very colorful and delicious @ShafiulB . We cooked and ate on the Eid day. I will share my post another day . Thanks for sharing this nice post with us.
Thanks for sharing the full recipe for this traditional dessert. I haven’t tried it before but now that you described all the steps, it will be easy to make it at home. Do you think it would be possible to switch some of the dried fruits and nuts?
Make sure to share some other traditional meals with the community.
P.S. Please be advised that I removed the COVID-19 tag as it is not related to your post.
It’s my pleasure that you like this dish and recipe. Thanks for commenting here.
Yes, you can add some dry fruits and nuts slices/pieces/ full size. These additions will make the Zorba flavored and looking very beautiful. You can add some on the 3rd step I mentioned and some on the last step serving time.
@MukulR Thanks for your comment brother. Yes, It’s delicious than its color and looks. I hope you will share your post soon with us. But You can share minimum a photo with us here.
ধন্যবাদ @ShafiulB ভাই আমাদের সাথে দারুন রেসিপি শেয়ার করার জন্যে ছবিগুলো অসাধরণ যা চোখে লেগে আছে না জানি খেতে কত সুস্বাদু হবে তা একদিন দাওয়াত করে খাওয়ার পর বুঝবো
Thanks, @ShafiulB Bhai, My daughter loves to eat Zorda a lot. As per your request, I have attached one photo of the Zorda in my first comment which was made at my house on Eid Day. Regards.
বাহ অনেক সুন্দর লিখেছেন ভাই রেসিপি সহ লেখার জন্য আপনাকে অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ। এটা আমার কাছে অনেক ভালো লাগে খাবারটি খেতে বিভিন্ন অনুষ্ঠান কিংবা বিশেষ দিন উপলক্ষে আয়োজন করা হয়ে থাকে।
. Thanks for sharing this nice post with us.
