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By: Saraswathi Iyer

Website: http:// http://www.simplysara07.blogspot.com/

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Rating: 4 / 5 stars - 1 vote(s).

Category: Vegetarian

Dish type: Main Dish

Key ingredients: rice, jeera, cardamom, cinammon,

Time: Less than 30 minutes

Procedure:

Ingredients
Rice - 2 cups ( I used normal Ponni Rice. Can use Basmati Rice too.)
Jeeragam(Jeera) - 3 tspns (Depending upon quantity of rice)
Spices - Laung, Pattai, Elakka, Krambu(Cloves, Cinammon, Cardamom, Black cardamom) - 2 nos each
Cashews - few
Cooking oil - 2 tspns
Ghee - 1 tspn
Salt
Preparation Method
Cook rice and keep separately. Allow it to cool a bit. By mixing hot rice makes sticky sometimes.
In a thick bottom kadai, put oil, l/2 tspn ghee, spices, jeeragam and fry for 2 mins.
Now add rice, sprinkle salt and mix well.
Break cashews to small pieces and fry in ghee in a sauce pan. Garnish it to the Jeera Rice.