JEERA RICE

Jeera rice is an Indian dish consisting of rice and cumin seeds. It is a popular dish in North India as an everyday rice dish. It is easy to prepare. According to the wiki, Jeera rice recipe is not found in ancient books and scripts of Indian recipes and culinary art. Text about this recipe can be found in books and travelogues since the Mughal Empire. Mughals were fond of rice recipes, because of which cooks worked to invent new rice recipes as well as did experiments with traditional old recipes. Jeera rice recipe is one of those rice recipes. Later on, it was adopted in Indian cuisine and became so popular that the recipe is now cooked daily by almost every Indian family.

INGREDIENTS:

Basmati rice - 1cup

Water - 2 cup

Olive oil - 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Bay leaf - 1

Cardamom - 1

Cashews - 7

Black pepper - 4

Ghee - 1 tbsp

METHOD:

1. Soak the basmati rice for 30 minutes and drain off the water. Keep it aside.

2. In a pressure cooker, add rice, salt, water, bay leaf, olive oil, cardamom. Cook it for 2 whistles.

3. In a pan, add ghee, cumin seeds, and black pepper. Saute till they splutter.

4. Also, fry cashews in the same pan.

5. Add all these to the rice and gently fluff the rice with a fork.

6. Garnish the rice with coriander leaves.

                    Serve the jeera rice with dal !!!!!!!!