North Indian

Jeera Rice

Name: Jeera Rice
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: North Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups basmati rice; 3.5 cups water; 2 tbsp ghee; 1.5 tsp cumin seeds; 1 bay leaf; 3/4 tsp salt

Meenakshi @meenakshi82

Jeera Rice is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy Vegetarian Halal Gluten free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups basmati rice
3.5 cups water
2 tbsp ghee
1.5 tsp cumin seeds
1 bay leaf
3/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Rinse the basmati rice until the water runs clear, then soak 15 minutes and drain.
Heat the ghee in a pot and let the cumin seeds and bay leaf sizzle until fragrant.
Add the rice, water, and salt, bring to a boil, then cover and cook on low until tender, about 12 minutes.
Rest 5 minutes, fluff gently with a fork, and serve.

Watch how to cook Jeera Rice

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Jeera Rice, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils)
  
  45 min
The cooked vegetable
- Aloo Gobi
  
  40 min
The sharp little thing
- Boondi Raita
  
  10 min
Something cool and fresh
- Kachumber Salad
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Jeera Rice carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Jeera Rice
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Plain Steamed Rice
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 390 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 74 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 430 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Jeera Rice takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.