Jewelled Christmas rice

Shopping list

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 1 piece lemon peel
  • 1 large onion, thinly sliced
  • handful fresh mint, chopped

• Tins, packets and jars

  • 350g/12oz basmati rice

• Cooking ingredients

  • 1/2 tbsp salt
  • 4 tbsp vegetable oil or butter
  • 3 cardamom pods
  • ¼ tsp crumbled saffron threads dissolved in 1 tbsp of hot water (optional)
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • generous handful raisins or barberries
  • handful dried apricots, chopped
  • generous handful of pistachio nuts, roughly chopped
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

• Other

  • sprinkling of edible gold & edible rose petals (optional)

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