The Best 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin Seed Rice Skillet

The Best 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin Seed Rice Skillet — Satisfying Cumin seed flavored rice for Weekday Lunch box

The Best 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin Seed Rice Skillet

Off late iam in with baking and baked goods and muffins and breads and cakes, and now its time i do Indian cooking. An indian dish with some curries and stir fries will be the ultimate satisfying food i will prefer right now. Till yesterday, i was a big fan of cakes and desserts and muffins, but right now, iam a fan of Indian food. Iam craving for some rice and curries. Wow.. the moment i think of such full lunch, iam feeling hungry as if iam starving for days and months. Iam going to eat rice for a month from now. Then i may switch over to some other favorite dish.

I got to see Cumin rice in some wedding and dinner events and was wondering how cumin alone can create a tasty dish. Never got a chance to taste Cumin rice during those events. There are three reasons why i did not attempt to taste cumin rice.

First one — Embarrassing — Cumin seed — Disaster: A general aversion towards Cumin due to its strong flavor when we add to coconut chutney. A bit more of cumin will spoil the whole chutney. A funny embarrassing story need to be told here. I never tried cooking that seriously before marriage except for countable attempts which went a hit and few went miss. After marriage, since my better half was not a trouble some person, he never complaint of whatever and however i cooked, I had my own style of take it light cooking. My day time profession did spare very less time to invest in a detailed cooking except for weekends and birthdays and festivals. I cooked whatever dishes were known to me. Days went on smooth til a nightmaring short visit by my In-laws. As usual i had to cook for roughly 15 people. I was in the belief that i make good coconut chutney. Still do not remember whether it was a mistake or unknowing mistake or accident or my mind was wandering, i added a spoon full of cumin seeds and made a disaster of first and last coconut chutney. It tasted awful and it was quite embarrassing to have served that i was in a hurry to leave for job. I did not have an alternate side dish. Luckily my in-laws were so considerate and they adjusted with whatever was available. :( . Believe me now i make nice creamy coconut chutney :))

The Best 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin Seed Rice Skillet

Only after this incident, i came to know that my better half prefers very less cumin in any dish. He hates cumin flavor. He would have shouted at me in his mind for making that awful chutney. Poor man, he never shouted at me. Iam lucky to have got married to him.

For my part: I just couldn’t imagine Cumin in a dish and especially cumin only to flavor Rice. Unimaginable Cumin rice until recently i made by myself and started loving it.

When i started making Cumin rice, i have started experimenting with lots of variations which are helpful for lunch box rice varieties from regular Lemon rice, Bisi Bela Bath , Cabbage fried rice, Red peppery rice. Spices in this recipe, cumin, pepper, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Red chilli adds up to uplift the Cumin rice. Its Spicy, with flavorful aroma explodes in each spoon. Made 3 batches of this cumin flavored rice to refrigerate for a dinner, lunch and weekday evening. Serving this 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin seed with Aviyal and Drumstick leaf stir fry will be a satisfying dinner or lunch. By the time i made 3 batches to refrigerate, i gulped few spoons just to make sure it tasted that good?, tasting went in the skillet i made, then in the spatula, tasting tasting till the refrigerator door closed with these batches in. And by then its lunch time and i din’t feel hungry with lots of tasting done.

This time i had cooked rice in my refrigerator that goes really well in this dish. You just have to crumble the cooked rice and you get a crunchy cumin rice instead of a sticky mushy rice which is forbidden in this arena

So get ready to celebrate this The Best 15 minute Roasted Cumin Seed Rice Skillet with me

The Best 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin Seed Rice Skillet

Recipe Type: Lunch

Cuisine: Indian

Author: [url href=”http://www.snowlavendarwillow.com/about-me/" target=”_blank”]Smitha — Yummy Platter[/url]

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 2 cups

The Best 15 minute Roasted Pepper Cumin Seed Rice Skillet — Quick and Easy — Week day Lunch — Aromatic Cumin and Spice flavored rice

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Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon — Rice Bran oil
• Spices:
• 2 — Cardamom
• 2 — cloves
• 1 — Star Anise
• 1 inch — Cinnamon
• 10 — Peppercorn, Dry roasted and crushed
• 2 — Dry Red Chilli, Dry roasted and crushed
• Other Ingredients:
• 2 cups — Cooked Rice
• Salt as needed
• Garnish:
• Few Curry leaves
• Cilantro, Roughly shredded

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a large flat bottomed skillet. Add all the spices in medium heat. Saute for a minute.
2. Add Cooked rice and salt and combine gently with the spices.
3. Garnish with Curry leaves and Cilantro

Serving Suggestion:

1. Serve Pepper Cumin rice hot with some spicy curry and salad

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