Today's recipe jeera rice is one pot rice dish, which can be prepared easily in jiffy. Jeera rice is aromatic, fluffy and very tasty. Generally jeera rice is prepared with long grain basmathi rice, jeera/cumin seeds,some basic spices and ghee. We can also prepare with normal rice or even with left over rice using vegetable oil too.
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When you are planning to prepare any heavy curries, dal recipes then jeera rice goes well with that. Also we can pack it for lunch box, it taste aromatic and tasty without any side dish too.
Though there is no limit for adding onion and garlic, we can prepare Jeera rice in many variations and in many ways accordingly. Like first prepare rice and then prepare Jeera rice or by directly cooking rice with jeera and spices. We can prepare it in pressure cooker or in Kadai. We can also add veggies like carrot, beans to make jeera pulao. As you are all familiar whenever I plan paneer dishes I prefer to prepare simple pulao like peas pulao, Carrot rice. Today I had jeera rice with one of my fav paneer recipe that is panner lababdar(will post soon).
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Jeera Rice
Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Rice items
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Jeera
Author : ArunaSarasChandra
Ingredients
Basmathi rice - 1 1/2 glass
Water - 2 1/2 glass
Jeera/cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Green chilli - 3
Elachi - 3
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon stick - 1 inch
Bay leaf - 2
Cashew nuts - 7(optional)
Lemon juice - 3 drops
Salt as per taste
Coriander leaves - 2 tsp(chopped)
Onion - 1 roughly chopped (I did not added)
1) Wash basmathi rice and soak it in enough water for 20 to 30 minutes. Slit green chillies in middle and keep it ready.
2) Later heat a pan add 3 tsp of ghee then add elachi, clove, Cinnamon stick/dalchini, bay leaf one after other let it fry for a second.
3) Now add cashew nuts fry it, when it starts changes color then add jeera/cumin seeds and fry till you get nice aroma and jeera changes color fry on medium to low flames.
4) Now add green chillies and fry it well. (If you want to add onion, add roughly chopped onions at this stage, fry till changes color).
5) Drain water completely from soaked basmathi rice and add it to the above.
6) saute/ mix the above once gently so that basmathi rice do not break. (** check tip)
7) Now add 2 1/2 glass water to the above.
2 1/2 glass 
8) Add required amount of salt to the above.
9) Squeeze/add 3 to 4 drop of lemon juice to the above and mix it once gently. (**check tip)
10) Let the rice boil on high flames for 3 minutes or you get bubbles on water.
10) Now add remaining ghee and chopped coriander leaves, close the lid and rest it for 5 to 10 minutes.
That's it tasty and flavourful jeera rice is ready to serve 😋, serve it with any paneer curries like Malai Matar paneer, or any gravy recipes like Kaju Curry, Punjabi dum aloo, As I already told you I had this tasty flavoured jeera rice with paneer lababdar curry.
Note
* We can also use normal rice instead of basmathi rice.
* You can also use vegetable oil instead of ghee.
* Adding cashew nuts is optional but gives good taste to jeera rice.
Tips
** Soak basmathi rice for 20 - 30 minutes then use 2 1/2 glass of water. If you soak less than 20 minutes then use 3 glasses of water.
** Adding few drop of lemon juice cooks rice fluffy and gives good white color.
** If you add more amount of lemon juice then jeera rice taste changes so take care while adding lemon juice.
** Though using ghee is optional it gives good flavour and taste to rice.
** Frying basmathi rice will enhances the flavour of rice, point to remember is mix it smoothly, otherwise rice will break.
** After cooking rest the jeera rice for 5 to 10 so that rice will e fluffy.
**If you want cook basmati rice pressure cooker then cook for 2 whistles.
** If you want to use normal rice then cook for 3 whistles.
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