Jeera Rice - submitted by Dahlia on 01-21-2008 (Cumin Rice, Zeera Pulao, Jeeraga Sadam)
Jeera rice (Jeera Pulav) is a rice dish with the wonderful flavour of cumin seeds. I love to make this dish for parties because it goes along with any kind of sidedish. It is a simple and elegant dish. Ingrediants
Basmati rice - 2 cups
Ghee/ Butter/ Oil - 2 tblsp
Cilantro - handful
Onion - 1/4 (chopped)
Green Chillies - 2 (minced)
Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1 tblsp
Whole garam masala - (1 bayleaf, 3 cloves, 1 cinnamon, 1 star anise)
Salt - to taste
Water - 3 cups
Method
1. Wash and soak the rice for atleast half an hour.
2. Heat the ghee in a pan and splutter the whole garam masala and cumin seeds.
3. Saute the onions (optional). Onions might change the colour of the rice.
4. Add the above tempering along with green chillies, part of the cilantro, drained
rice, water and required salt and cook in a rice cooker.
5. Garnish with cilantro and serve with any curry. It is a very versatile diah and goes
along with any sidedish.
Tips
- If you use whole garam masala instead of garam masala powder and skip the onions,
the rice will remain nice white in colour. Comments Comment by kavitha kavitha
i observed that u use cilantro in all ur recipes.can i know thae reason? Reply :- Hi Kavitha, I love the flavour of fresh cilantro. Please feel free to skip it if you are not a big fan of it. |
Comment by satyan seshan do we need to use only Basmati rice or any other rice would do Reply :- I would recommend Basmati Rice. |
Comment by K.G Bhat on 07 February 2010 13:47PM try cooking any rice with jeera,chopped onions and a couple of teaspoonfuls of clarified butter. Reply :- Sure Bhat. I just love the flavour of Basmati Rice. |
| Comment by Fatimah on 28 October 2008 02:12AM Hi, As my family is coming to my home for EID, I had tried this recipe and had prepared this variation of Jeera rice. It came out SUPERB. My whole family including my husband love it so much that my husband ask me to prepare the same rice for the next day for his family. Thank you so much. Reply :- Hi Fatimah, You are right. This is a very simple and very flavourful pulav that goes very well with any kind of gravies for any occasion. |
gud job
- by Priya on Mon 4/14/08 10:25 AM hai dahlia yesterday it was my hubby's birthday and i tried ur jeera rice.it came out very well.special thanks to u.one thing i have to say abt ur recipes is not time consuming but delicious.keep on doing
Reply :- thanks dear, well even i dont like to slave in the kitchen.. do try all the recipes. |
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