ZERDE DESSERT – ZERDE TATLISI
Zerde is one of the special recipes of the Ottoman palace cuisine. We can say that Zerde dessert is a kind of rice jelly with sugar.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rice
- 6 glasses of water
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons starch arrowroot if available
- 1 pinch of saffron
- 1 teaspoon of turmeric
- 4 tablespoons of rose water
- 2 tablespoons of currants
- 1 tablespoon of pine nuts
Instructions
- Leave the saffron to steep in rose water overnight in a lidded bowl.
- Wash the rice thoroughly until all the starch has runoff.
- Take the starch-free rice with water and sugar in a pot and cook it without allowing the rice to overcook and become flaky.
- Dissolve the starch in 1/2 cup of water, pour over the cooked rice, and mix.
- Finally, add soaked currants, pine nuts, turmeric and rose watery saffron and mix.
- Cook on low heat for 5 minutes. Then take it in serving bowls and cool.
- After cooling, garnish with currants and pine nuts.