Jeera Rice
Jeera rice or Zeera 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, unlike biryani.
"Zeera" is the Hindi-Urdu word for cumin seeds, sometimes pronounced as Jeera.
Its very easy to cook and tastes really good. It goes well with almost every North Indian curry.
Recipe Servings: 2 - 3
Cooking time: 20 Minutes
Ingredients
- Basmati Rice (uncooked) - 1 cup
- Oil - 2 tbsp
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Onion (finely sliced) - 1
- Red Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Black Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Salt - to taste
- Water (to cook rice) - 2 cups
Preparation
- Wash rice properly until the water runs clear. Soak rice for about 30 minutes.
- Drain out the water and keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker on a medium flame.
- Add cumin seeds into it. Let them crackle.
- Then add finely sliced onions and sauté till the onions gets golden brown. Stir in between.
- Now add already soaked and drained rice, water, salt, red chilli powder and black pepper powder. Mix well.
- Cover the pressure cooker with the lid.
- Pressure cook on high flame. When steam starts to escape from the valve, switch to the medium flame and let it cook for 4 whistles or for 7 minutes.
- Then switch off the flame. When the pressure drops on its own, open the lid and fluff up jeera rice with a fork.
- Jeera rice is ready to serve.
- Serve hot with a curry.
