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Jeera Rice

Cuisine Style Tamilnadu | Cooking Time 45 minutes
To Serve 4 | Take with any side dish
Type Lunch or Dinner
Ingredients
Rice - 1 cup
Jeera (Cumin seed) - 10 gms
Gee - 2 Tbsp
Pepper - 2 nos
Red Chilli - 3 nos
Asafoetida - 1 tsp
Mustard seed - 1 tbsp
Curry leaves
Salt
Preparation
- Boil the rice in less water and spread it in a big plate.
- Heat the gee in a pan, Dry roast Cumin seed.
- Coarse grind half quantity of the cumin seed and keep it aside.
- Heat the pan, splutter mustard seed.
- Add curry leaves, Asafoetida, Red chilli and fry for 2 minutes.
- Mix cooked rice.
- Add coarse ground and dry roasted cumin seed.
- Pour 1 tbsp of gee then mix well.
- Add salt to taste.
Note
Use fresh ghee.
Tips
2 to 3 ground pepper will add extra taste.
How this Jeera Rice recipe is Unique?
Seasoning of mustard seed brings taste to Jeera rice.