Name: Shad
Ingredients: 2 pounds cleaned rice; water; common salt (to taste); curds (for serving); chillies (for serving); 1/4 of dhal (for serving)

Shad

Ingredients

Directions

Wash the cleaned rice thoroughly.
Boil the rice in a large pot of water at night for the evening meal.
Once cooked, strain the rice while hot.
Set aside one-half or one-third of the rice under water for the morning meal.
Serve the boiled rice with curds, chillies, or dhal.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.