Jeera Rice/Zeera Rice

Pepper zeera rice is a dish of Sourashtrian people from Madurai.We call it as Thup pongal.The temper is given in ghee.I dont like ghee much so I prefer to give temper in groundnut oil.Usually we do it with lemon rice on auspicious occasions.It is like a twin brother of lemon rice.We serve this with sambhar.As pepper gets fried so it tastes very good.

Preparation Time : 10 min
Cook Time : 40 mins

Total Time : 50 mins

Servings : 3

Ingredients :
Ponni Raw Rice-2 cups
Cumin seeds-1 Tea spoon
Peppercorn-10 Nos
Cashewnut-10 Nos
Curry leaves-10 Nos
Asofoetida-1 pinch

Step by Step Procedure :

1.In cooker,for 1 cup of rice boil it with 2 cups of water.Pressure cook it for 3 whistles.Once it is done pour the rice in a plate.Let the steam go off.If you are cooking in a open vessel,Fill it with water to half of that vessel..Let the water gets boiled.Take quantity of rice.Soak this rice in water till the water in the vessel gets boiled.Once the water gets boiled add it to the vessel.

2.Switch off the flame when the rice gets boiled.Cover it with a lid.Clip it from half of the sides to extract the water from it.Now keep this vessel near the sides of the sink.Bend the vessel very carefully and keep it for 10 mins.The water from it will get extracted.

                                                    

3.After 10 mins you can pour out the rice in a plate.Let the steam go off.

                                            

4.Take a pan.Heat it.Add 3 spoons of oil or you can use ghee instead of oil.I dont like ghee much so I prefer to give temper in oil.First add pepper and cashew nuts.Fry it for 1 minute then add cumin seeds,curry leaves and asafoetida as cumin seeds get easily fried so u can add it in last and morever if u add it first it will get burnt.The rice wont taste good.So Lastly add it.

                                                      

5.Now add this temper to the rice and mix it throughly.Sometimes lumps are formed when this hot temper is added to the rice. So u have to mix it properly by breaking all the lumps.

                                                      

6.The rice is ready.You can serve with Dal Tadka or Sambhar.