Cumin Rice

Ingredients

• • Rice - 1 cup
• • Garlic - 10 flakes
• • Red chillies (dry) - 5
• • Ghee - 2 tablespoons
• • Cumin seeds - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Black pepper - ¾ teaspoon
• • Salt - as required

Method

• 1. Cook rice and allow it to cool completely.
• 2. Separate the grains and mix half a Teaspoon of ghee to that.
• 3. Peel garlic and slice into thin round pieces.
• 4. Pound pepper and cumin seeds coarsely.
• 5. Heat ghee, add garlic pieces and fry till light brown.
• 6. Add preserved chillies and fry till it becomes black (can be roasted separately) Add pepper-cumin powder and fry in ghee for another two minutes.
• 7. Pour over rice add salt mix well and serve.