Recipe: Appetizing Jeera rice

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Jeera rice. Heat the oil in a medium size saucepan over a medium-high heat. Drop in the cumin seeds, and cook until they splutter. Do not allow the cumin seeds to burn or become really dark brown in color.

Thats all of six ingredients which you probably have in your pantry, so making this is actually easier than you thought!

How to make Jeera Rice - Rice cooked along with cumin seeds and whole spices tempered in ghee - aromatic and flavourful.

This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

You can have Jeera rice using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Jeera rice

  1. It’s 1 1/2 cup of basmati rice.

  2. You need 2 tbsp of ghee.

  3. It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.

  4. Prepare 2 tsp of Curry leaves.

  5. It’s 2 tsp of jeera(cumin) seeds.

  6. It’s 2 of green chillies.

  7. You need 2 1/2 cup of water.

Main Ingredients : Basmati Rice (बासमती चावल), Cumin Seeds (जीरा) Jeera rice or cumin rice is flavored rice made with basmati rice, flavored with tempered cumin seeds in ghee, butter, or oil.

The tempering technique is called 'tadka' in Hindu, and it's an essential step in this recipe for the spices to release their flavors.

Jeera rice is also one of the most popular Indian rice-based dish served in restaurants. many people prefer to have jeera rice instead of plain basmati rice to go along with dals or curry dishes.

The tempering with cumin and fragrant whole spices takes the simple rice dish a level notch up.

Jeera rice step by step

  1. Rinse basmati rice two to three times, till the water runs clear.

  2. Soak rice for half an hour.

  3. Heat ghee in a pan add all the other ingredients to it, jeera, curry leaves, green chillies saute it for two to three minutes keep aside..

  4. Now take a cooker add soaked and drained basmati rice add 21/2 cup water, and salt mix well, on medium flame get one whistle, turn off the flame.

  5. When the cooker gets cool, remove the lid mix the tampering which we prepared and kept, give it a gentle mix, now you can serve jeera rice with any choice of your curry…

Check Jeera Rice Video Jeera Rice (Cumin Rice) Jeera rice is a flavored Indian rice dish made by cooking basmati rice with ghee, cumin & other fragrant spices.

Making jeera rice is one of the simplest & only needs a handful of ingredients that are mostly pantry staples.

To make jeera rice, heat the oil in a kadhai and deep-fry the onion slices on a medium flame till they are golden brown.

Drain on absorbent paper and keep aside for the garnish.

To a wok or kadhai, add oil and let heat on medium flame for a few seconds.