Jeera Rice...

Easy Peasy Recipe for great tasting rice that stays seperate when cooked!!!

Ingredients:
1 cup Basmati Rice (preferably long grained not the tukda variety)
2 cups hot water
Whole Spices
- 5 Cardamon pods (slightly opened)
- 5 cloves
- 1 tbsp Jeera
- 2 tbsp Ghee

Method:

1) Wash the rice a couple of times to get rid of the starch ( you know you have succeeded when the water in which you rinsed the rice is clear), keep aside.
2) Heat a large pan and add ghee.
3) Once the ghee is hot add the jeera and then after 30 seconds add the other whole spices.
4) Fry till the aroma of the spices wafts through the air.
5) Add the washed rice and keep frying till all the moisture evaporates (the rice will start clinging to one another).
6) At this point add the hot water and salt to taste, the proportion is 1:2, which means for 1 cup rice add 2 cups of water.
7) Cover and cook.
8) Uncover occasionally and see how the rice is doing.
9) Tip: you may want to shift the position of the pan on the stove, to ensure every area is getting cooked evenly.
10) Remove from heat and serve with raita or curd.