Special Jeera Rice | Jeera rice with nuts and raisins | Rice Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4 people
 
Festive, loaded with nuts and raisins, aromatic special jeera rice
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup basmati rice/jeerakasala rice
  • 2 Cups water
  • 2 Tbsp + 1 Tsp desi ghee
  • 1-2 elaichi/green cardamom
  • 1" broken cinnamon
  • 2 laung/cloves
  • 8-10 powdered black pepper
  • 1 Tsp jeera
  • 1 chopped green chilli
  • 1 sliced big onion
  • 1-2 chopped cloves of garlic
  • 8-10 broken cashews
  • 2 Tbsp raisins
  • ¼ Tsp sugar
  • Salt to taste
  • Chopped coriander to garnish
Method
  1. Wash rice 5-6 times or till water runs clear. Soak for 15 minutes, drain water and keep aside for 10 minutes
  2. Add 2 Cups water and let it cook by absorption method
  3. When rice is cooking, get other ingredients ready, keep dry spices together
  4. Roast cashews and raisins in 1 Tsp ghee till golden. Keep aside
  5. Heat 2 Tbsp ghee in a pan, roast dalchini, elaichi and laung
  6. Add jeera and let them splutter and then add black pepper
  7. Throw in chopped green chilli and sliced onions
  8. Sauté onions till they turn soft and light golden
  9. Sprinkle sugar and mix well
  10. Next add chopped garlic and saute
  11. Season cooked rice with salt
  12. Mix rice with jeera-onion tadka, mix well to combine
  13. Tip in roasted cashews and raisins
  14. Garnish with chopped coriander
  15. Pack for lunch box or serve immediately
Notes
Cook rice in pressure cooker for 2-3 whistles

Use any kind of rice which cooks and blooms well, aged rice works well

Nuts can be optional, keep it plain if you want it to be simple

After making tadka, soaked rice can be added and cooked with required water with the tadka itself to make it an easier one-pot meal
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/special-jeera-rice/