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Aloo jeera rice/ how to make jeera rice
- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
Ingredients
- Basmati rice- 1 cup
- potato- 1
- cumin seeds 1 tbs
- mintleaves- 3 tbs
- onions- 1
- green chilli- 2
- peppercorns- 1 tsp
- oil/ghee- 1 tbs
Instructions
- Saok the basmati rice for 15 mins
- Heat up the ghee/oil in the pan, add onions, jeera and mint leaves sauté for 2 mins
- Add in green chilli and pepper corn, potato sauté them for 3 mins.
- Add the soaked basmati Rice and sauté them in the oil for 1 minute.
- Now add the required amount of water, add salt and let it boil for 10 minutes.
- After 10-12 minutes, simmer the flame to low- medium and cover with lid and cook for another 10 minutes.
STEP BY STEP PICTURES: Aloo jeera rice| how to make jeera rice
Heat up the oil/ghee add in onions
add jeera
Throw some mint leaves..
Add some peppercorns and silted chilli
Add in some cubed potato
Salt to taste..
Add the soaked basmati rice
Saute them in oil for 1 minute
Add the required amour of water.. after 15 to 20 mins aloo jeera rice is ready!!
Loving these photos. The Rice color beautiful. Indian spicy stick is one of my favorite warm spices! I can relate to eating just the filling. Awesome work Swapna….
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Thank you Roopa!!
Hey Swapna, I tried this recipe yesterday and it came out really good. I did make a minor change. I added a cinnamon stick, some cloves and some cardamoms. We loved it. Thanks for sharing your recipes.
Hello akka!im glad that it turned out well,yeah:) 🙂 adding cinnamon and cloves gives an add-on flavours,sure i will try next time!!Take care!!