How to Grind your Cumin Seeds (JEERA) for indian dishes and recipes

Ground Cumin goes excellents in indian yougurt raitha', indian recipes, and mexican recipes.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Whole cumin seeds (buy at your local indian store)
• 6" to 9" stainless steel frying pan
• stove top
• wooden spoon
• A Spice grinder/ food processor

1. 
   Whole Cumin Seeds looks like this; You can buy these at your local indian store

   Place 1/4 cup of cumin seeds in your frying pan

2. Turn your stove on low to medium heat

3. With a wooden spoon stir the cumin seeds in the frying pan. Do not walk away from the stove top

4. 
   Notice the dark color; the aroma of the cumin is very distinctive and smells wonderful!

   Keep roasting the cumin seeds until you notice an aroma of cumin and also a color change (from light brown to semi-dark brown) in the cumin seeds

5. At the end of 3-4 minutes, take off the heat and cool.

6. Once cool, place your roasted cumin seeds in your spice grinder. Place the lid on the spice grinder

7. 
   Ground Cumin that you made in your very own kitchen!

   Use the pulse setting, pulse the cumin seeds until they are ground to a powder.

Tips & Warnings

• You can buy whole cumin seeds in the indian store
• Store your ground up cumin in your pantry where it is dark and cool.
• Use this ground up cumin in your yougurt raitha, and on your indian and mexican recipes. Often the ground beef that you use in tacos has cumin in it.
• If you do not have a spice grinder (basically a mini food processor), use a mortar and pestle- but this will take a considerably longer time. If you doing more cumin all at one time, consider using a food processor
• Watch the cumin seeds when they are roasting on the stove top- if the heat is on too high, they will burn to a very dark black color (not good)
• It is important to keep stirring the cumin seeds once on the burner

Resources

• Great Recipes that anyone can make at home

[Aries0681]

on 11/6/2008 Great article NJ: very detailed and interesting.
Nice job NJ! 5 stars.

[Aries0681]

on 11/6/2008 Great article NJ: very detailed and interesting.
Nice job NJ! 5 stars.

[Ballzy]

on 11/5/2008 Thanks for the tips! 5*