Jeera rice recipe restaurant style (cumin rice)

10 Sep Jeera rice recipe restaurant style (cumin rice)

Last Updated on September 10, 2021 by blessmyfoodbypayal

Jeera rice recipe restaurant style | cumin rice recipe with step wise pictorial and video method.

Jeera rice aka cumin rice is an India staple food made using steamed rice, jeera i.e. cumin and few little spices.

These rice are :

✓Vegan ;
✓Glutenfree ;
✓Easy to make ;
✓Gets ready under 30 minutes ;
✓Can be paired with any curry ;
✓Even eaten as it is &
✓May utilize the leftover cooked rice.

Jeera is the Hindi word for cumin and as these rice gets earthy flavours from jeera, these are named as Jeera Rice.

Most common rice item in restaurants as well as in weddings stalls, cumin seed rice are commonly served with any gravy based curry like chana dal, green moong dal or Rajma masala or chana masala etc.

Though plain steamed rice can be served with any of the curries, but many people prefer to have jeera rice instead of plain rice.

Tempering of rice with cumin and association of other fragrant indian spices makes a simple rice dish a level notch up and best jeera rice recipe without any hesitation.

As a result, when you eat jeera rice after assembling with any curry, this is not just the rice but the taste of overall food gets enhanced.

I take this opportunity to admit that if the curry is not of my choice, I love to eat jeera rice as it is. Lol

Really, they are such a delicious.

HOW TO TWEAK THE RECIPE?

This Cilantro cumin rice can be made in many ways in different pots and after making certain changes in ingredients, if some are not available to you :

JEERA RICE IN PRESSURE COOKER OR INSTANT POT

If you are short of time and not enough time to cook rice and prepare tempering separately, you can do it in one go.

Take a pressure cooker or IP, add oil and saute cumin followed by all given spices. Then add rice & water. Close the lid, cook and your cumin pulao is ready. Isn’t it simple?

But note that in this cooking process, the amount of water shouldn’t be in excess because you are not going to drain water later.

The most common formula of cooking rice in pressure cooker is to use water double the quantity of rice.

For eg, if you have taken 1 cup of rice, then water has to be 2 cups.

JEERA RICE WITH LEFTOVER RICE

Jeera fried rice recipe can be made with leftover plain streamed rice also.

Pre-cooked rice will make this a 2 minute recipe. All you need to add oil, cumin and spices. And lastly rice.

So by putting no much efforts, delicious cumin rice are ready.

CHOICE OF JEERA RICE RECIPE INGREDIENTS

What we have shared in this post is the recipe of Jeera rice in restaurant style but if you are making it at home, you are not bound to use all the garam masala spices, as shown.

Some keep it very simple limited to oil, cumin, salt & rice. That’s it.

Or pick the one you have.

Furthermore, some also add roasted cashews, green peas, onion and green chilies in jeera rice. I personally love cumin rice with peas.

So here also, you can tweak the recipe as per your liking.

TIPS TO COOK PERFECT & EASY CUMIN RICE

1. Quality of Rice

Choose the best quality of rice. And most commonly, this is aged long grained basmati rice, which is the first choice of everyone, when it comes to pulao or biryani.

Each grain of basmati rice fluffs up and expands on cooking. And still they do not stick to each other.

Saying this doesn’t mean that other type of rice are not good at all to make jeera rice, biryani or pulao, but basmati are counted on the top.

2. Washing Rice

Washing or rinsing rice under running water is very important. Rinsing helps in removing the starch from rice, which causes the rice to stick & be mushy.

So always wash rice number of times until water runs clear.

3. Soaking Rice

This is not in the case of jeera rice or any other kind of special rice dish, but soaking of rice is followed as common practice with respect to cooking of rice.

Soaking of rice for 20 to 30 minutes not only cuts the cooking time, but also results in long, fluffy and perfectly cooked rice.

4. Wide Pot

To cook the rice, use a wide Pot or pan so that rice can breath. They need a space to expand and if the pot is congested, that will cause the rice to stick to each other.

5. Stirring rice

Firstly, don’t stir the rice too frequently and whenever you need to do it, prefer to use fork over spoon or ladle because spoon may break the rice grains.

6. Don’t overcook

Cook the rice only to the point they are soft enough to eat. Extra cooking will make them sticky and mushy and you will find good in taste.

7. Spreading rice

Once the rice are cooked, immediately drain water from them spread the rice in some wide plate or tray. This will cause the rice to cool down immediately and their cooking process will come to an end.

STEP WISE PICTORIAL RECIPE of Jeera rice recipe restaurant style

WASHING & SOAKING OF RICE

1.Take rice in a bowl and wash them, preferably under running water. Wash the rice 3-4 times or until water runs clear.

2. Soak the rice for 30 minutes in enough water.

COOKING OF RICE

3. Take a pan and add water, bay leaf, cloves, green cardamoms, black cardamom, star anise, cinnamon stick, mace and salt.

4. When water begins to boil, add rice after draining the soaked water.

5. Let rice cook uncovered on full flame.

6. In 10 to 12 minutes, rice will be tender and soft enough worth eating. You can check by pressing a rice grain between your thumb and index finger.  Do not overcook them.

7. Immediately pass the rice through a sieve so that water drains.

8. Spread rice in a wide plate and keep aside.

TEMPERING OF RICE

9. Add oil and cumin seeds in a pan.

10. Let cumin splutter and turn brown.

11. Add rice in the pan.

12. Give it a good stir without breaking the rice.

13. Sprinkle some chopped coriander leaves/cilantro.

Jeera rice are ready.

NOTES

1. If not vegan, prefer desi ghee/clarified butter over oil for more delicious and flavourful jeera rice.
2. Don’t over roast the cumin otherwise they will bring bitter taste to the rice.

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Jeera rice recipe restaurant style – recipe card

Jeera rice recipe restaurant style (cumin rice)

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Jeera rice aka cumin rice is an India staple food made using steamed rice, jeera i.e. cumin and few little spices.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Course rice

Cuisine Indian

Servings 2

Ingredients

  

1 cup = 200ml

FOR WASHING & SOAKING RICE

• 1 Cup Rice preferably long grain basmati
• Running water for washing
• Water for soaking

FOR COOKING RICE

• Rice soaked & drained
• 4 cups water
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 cloves
• 3 green cardamoms
• 1 black cardamom
• 1 star Anise
• 1/2 inches cinnamon stick
• 1 piece of mace
• 1 tsp salt

FOR TEMPERING

• 2 tbsp Oil
• 1 tbsp cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves

Instructions

 

WASHING & SOAKING OF RICE

• Take rice in a bowl and wash them, preferably under running water. Wash the rice 3-4 times or until water runs clear.
• Soak the rice for 30 minutes in enough water.

COOKING OF RICE

• Take a pan and add water, bay leaf, cloves, green cardamoms, black cardamom, star anise, cinnamon stick, mace and salt.
• When water begins to boil, add rice after draining the soaked water.
• Let rice cook uncovered on full flame.
• In 10 to 12 minutes, rice will be tender and soft enough worth eating. You can check by pressing a rice grain between your thumb and index finger. Do not overcook them.
• Immediately pass the rice through a sieve so that water drains.
• Spread rice in a wide plate and keep aside.

TEMPERING OF RICE

• Add oil and cumin seeds in a pan.
• Let cumin splutter and turn brown.
• Add rice in the pan.
• Give it a good stir without breaking the rice.
• Sprinkle some chopped coriander leaves/cilantro.
• Jeera rice are ready.

Notes

1. If not vegan, prefer desi ghee/clarified butter over oil for more delicious and flavourful jeera rice.
2. Don't over roast the cumin otherwise they will bring bitter taste to the rice.

Keyword cumin rice, jeera rice