Tairi|Sindhi Sweet Rice For Chetichand

Alka Keswani — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:59:02 +0000

ChetiChand, the New year of Sindhis is just round the corner and like every year, there are plenty of requests for Tairi Recipe (Tahiri/Tayri/Sindhi style Sweet rice). Tairi or Tahiri/ Tayri is a traditional aromatic sweet rice preparation, cooked on special occasions like Marriages, Mundan, Pooja ceremonies and also during festivals like Chaliha, Chetichand etc. Tairi is distributed as Prasad on Chetichand and it is also enjoyed with Sai bahji, Beeh patata or simple Potato-eggplant curry (Recipe coming up, next !), specially on Sundays. Tairi cooked without artificial food colour Print Tairi|Sindhi Sweet Rice For Chetichand Rating 4.5 from 6 reviews Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 25 mins Serves: 3-4 Tairi or Tayri is a Sindhi Sweet rice preparation made on special occasions and Sindhi Festivals like Chalia and Chetichand Ingredients Rice (Basmati or regular) 300 gm Sugar 200 gm (or you can use 50 gm of Jaggery and 150 gm Sugar) Water 500 ml ( Depending upon quality and age of rice, water required, may vary.) Saunf (Fennel seeds) 2 tsp Dhoongi ( Dried coconut kernel/kopra/copra) few thin slices Dhaakh (Black Raisins) 2 tbsp Oil/Ghee 2 tbsp Green cardamoms 2 (optional) Roasted/fried dry fruits/nuts like almonds, unsalted pistachio/cashew (Optional..I didn't used any !) Saffron few strands (optional) Orange red/ orange yellow/Jalebi colour few drops (I didn't used any !) Method Rinse well and soak rice for half hour. Boil in water (you can add a pinch of salt) on high flame till the grains swell.You can add green cardamoms too. The rice should be bit more than 'half-cooked'. In the meantime, roast/ fry, nuts/almonds (if using). Heat 2 tbsp of oil and add thin slices of Copra (kopra) and black raisins.Put off the gas and immediately add fennel seeds . Check if there is any water remaining in rice, if yes, drain the rice in colander.If not, just proceed with next step. Add sugar and pour the copra+raisins+ fennel seeds mixture upon the rice and cook on lowest flame.If using food colour, add it on this stage. The liquid colour could be used as it is, while if using food colour in powder form then dissolve it first in a tsp of water and then add in rice.Add saffron (if using) You can use a griddle and place the rice container over the griddle and cook on lowest flame.The rice must be covered with a lid at this stage. Mix very gently for once and let the sugar caramelize. Tairi cooked with using colour is generally orange in colour. If cooked with organic jaggery, it is brownish in colour, if cooked using normal jaggery and sugar or just sugar, it is pale white in colour. 3.4.3177 2.2.1 And this is Tairi cooked by my friend and Neighbour, Priya Dadlani. Jalebi colour was used while cooking this and she served Tairi with Sindhi signature dish, Saibhaji ..finger licking good !

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Alka Keswani — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:31 +0000

Sorry to disappoint those who visited this blog for having a look at some yet another Sindhi Recipe. But trust me,you wont regret coming here after reading first half of this post(Though you will surely regret reading the later half) Well , today i am here to share some good things with you. Firstly, many of you had requested me for the recipe of Tahiri(tairi,taihri,sweet rice) , and due to my sheer laziness and my step motherly treatment to the sweet food, i was unable to share with you the favorite of so many Sindhis….A sweet rice.Though i had already Emailed many of you , its recipe ,today i am sharing a link with you,where you can find the recipe of this traditional Sweet rice Dear Medhaa of Cook with love ,a sweet friend and a lovely lady,who happen to share my work (won’t call it load or burden) of blogging about Sindhi recipes,finally came up with this most awaited recipe of Taihri. So all of you ,who were waiting to feast your eyes ,on a lovely looking Taihri, just hop on to the following link http://medhaa.blogspot.com/2009/03/tyari-sweet-rice.html Now coming to other good things , Vidhas of Appetizing Recipes and Nithya of A Culinary Odyssey , showered so many awards on me and my blog , that i no longer craved to play Holi with water lolz….. Here they go, Nithya also tagged me for… “25 things you have to say about yourself ”. Whooops….Well i don’t know whether i can say 25 things about myself(i have actually too many to say,but i don’t want to scare away readers by showing my true colours….lolz….. Lets see how far i can go..Ummm.. I am very very outspoken and many times speak at the places and situations where i am actually supposed to shut up I hate hate hate hate politics and people who plays it I am very impulsive,though had mellowed down to much extent after my kid was born,but still….. I am very lazy when it comes to cleaning closets, or in that case even those mundane chores like dusting and keeping things at proper place….after i started blogging i am getting more and more clumsy I love spicy food,the food that brings tears to my eyes( khushi aur spice ke aansoon) is stamped GOOD food by me and no,i cannot consider cornflakes and sandwiches as meals I cannot live without my Hubby(though at times i feel like running away from him….Talk about hypocrites dear…) , my adorable kid, good food, sound sleep and gallons of water I am a person who likes to rejoice thinking about pleasant memories of past and squeeze out some feelings of satisfaction and joy from the little things around me…could be as simple as drizzling rains , kids playing in park, my family eating like gluttons when i make something special for them, or even when i chanced upon some nice old favourite song of mine on Radio I like the flattering comments of the people on my blog,though many of them are not apt,i still love to live in wonderland where everything you do,is liked by people I really miss my college friends,wish i do meet them, bridging the gap ,and continuing from where we left I am a crazy fan of Paanipuri and i wish it was declared the Best Food Of the world and i hope silly that someday some scientists miraculously find something really healthy about these tangy thingieesssss I wish to learn baking, driving, Working Out,eating healthy, and grooming myself ( All these ,just in my thoughts….lolz) I like to watch movies in the cosy room of my home, with no one to disturb, no interruptions and no intermissions, some munchies(No popcorns plsss), and no kind of other botherations.But Alas,this haven’t been possible since last 11 years…..phew… Love listening to some cool songs (The New songs doesnt classify as cool songs,except ofcourse the rare few ).Again i like to listen those when there is no body around,coz i have this irritating habit of hummmming along loudly with every song,and poor souls around me( read Hubby ) have to move away or else take a painkiller to overcome the side effects (generally a headache) of listening to my songs…lolz I cannot stand Egoistic, rude , immodest , cruel, shrewd, Wealth exhibitionist,alcoholics and those who spank kids or abuse them I love to stare at the setting Sun or blinking stars, at some quiet place , where there aren’t any distractions like Honking cars, smoking chimneys,chattering people, electronic gadgets around (i hate my cell beeping when i am at such places) I wish to go for a long vacation with my family, especially to a place with stunning greenery, open fields, mesmerizing waterfalls, where my kid can run and hop around without fearing any corners to stop him,and where i am make to feel like a queen with all the great food,cooked and served,without me moving an inch towards Kitchen(And come to think of it,i am a food blogger…what a contrast !!).What about Hubby?? Well he can keep himself occupied with anything else but Laptop,ipod,or Cell phone(Hard life for him tsk tsk tsk) I wish i get my Inbox filled with loads of emails everyday, obviously with some kind comments, flattering praises,Nice blessings and casual chats from Fellow bloggers My biggest Need for the Day(or in that case for months to come) is learning HTML, java,php. etc. Coz it get frustrating to rely on my Hubby for all the mundane changes i need in the layout of my blog, and i hate hogging up his valuable time ,for getting the problems fixed.But to tell you all the truth is ,that no matter how hard i tried to follow the tutorials, all that i was able to learn is HOW TO WASTE YOUR TIME IN LEARNING AND STILL NOT LEARN ANYTHING… I love everything my mother cooks (i know that hold true for maximum of you), and i crave for so many foods that she used to make before my marriage I wish people could be more expressive, more tolerant, more approachable,without any airs around them, more sensitive,more Human I was almost Dead with shock when my hubby SMSed(grrrrrrr..) me that he likes the tea i make than what a Famous Restaurant served him.Alas that was the only praise i got from him(Now dear readers please don’t doubt my culinary abilities,i do cook decent enough, atleast it is more edible than what office canteens generally pass on as lunch/snacks) I am grateful to many bloggers around me,who had helped me a lot,inspired me a ton and had been around consoling me,cheering me and boosting my morale and confidence.Though the list could go on and on,still to name the few….Shilpa of Aayis recipes (she was the first blogger i interacted with,who also happen to enlighten me about wordpress etc),Srivalli,who had been a great mediator to clear up some misunderstandings with fellow blogger,and who also was generous enough to provide her Blog space to a novice cook ..My BIL .Pooja ,at whose place i participated for the first time for an event,and even Won it.That was my first and the Only victory .Medhaa,who not only told me about TOI,but also created my Feed ,on my behalf. Sunshinemom...well the lady had went out of the way,umpteen number of times to help me out,and i can only say ….dear I owe you a lot….Then there are Soma and Sia,two wonderful ladies i love to interact with.Sia is probably the only one who tried and tasted a recipe from my blog and blogged about it,while chatting with soma is such a great fun I wish i never lose interest in food blogging and that this hobby of mine should get addictive day by day,year by year I love to interact with many many people, and it always feel great when somebody leaves feeling happy after interacting with me Finally i Thank all of you ,who actually read the above 24 ramblings and are still here ,reading 25th one.I appreciate your patience and kindness,and now kindly do me yet another favor and write something in comment box…a thing which most of you escape after reading my posts….lolz Thanks Nithya, it was fun talking about myself, coz i hardly meet people who would like to know about me.So i seldom get any chance to babble about myself 😉 And i pass on these awards to the bloggers i mentioned above(Sia,Soma,srivalli,Medhaa,Shilpa,Sunshinemom,Pooja).Hope they will be kind enough to accept these Ps:I am sorry,i forgot to tag you all also for 25 Things About yourself,so kindly if you can,do share at least few things about you,if not 25 🙂

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