Zeera Rice or Cumin Rice – Maimoona Yasmeen Recipes – Hyderabadwala

From Maimoona Yasmeen’s Recipes

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice: 250 grams

Cooking oil: 1 ½ tablespoon

Cumin seeds(zeera): 2 teaspoons

Green chillies(whole) : 4

Curry leaves: ½ cup

Salt: ½ teaspoon + 1 teaspoon

Ajinomoto: 2 pinches

Procedure:

1. Soak rice for about half an hour. Add water and 1 teaspoon salt and cook the rice.
2. Spread the cooked rice in a flat bottomed bowl or plate and allow it to cool.
3. In a cooking pan, add oil. When the oil is hot, add cumin seeds, let them splutter.
4. Add  whole green chilies de-seeded and vertically slit, add curry leaves,  cooked rice, salt and ajinomoto.
5. Saute for 2 minutes.

Zeera Rice is ready.

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