jeera

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Jeera is regular cumin.It could refer to cumin seed or to ground pan roasted

cumin seeds .Black jeera can refer to 2 things.Most often it refers to

caraway seed,a close relative.It can also refer to burnt fried cumin

seed(done deliberately for the unique flavor and sometimes used as a

topping for naan instead of fried kalunji seeds.)

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Wednesday, May 17, 2000 8:28 AM

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> Dear Holly -

>

> I checked out jeera in two of my books, and found that it is the Indian

name

> for cumin. The index in The Encyclopedia of Herbs and Spices refers

> inquiries on " jeera " or " jira " to the section on cumin, and The New Indian

> Cooking Course features a recipe called " Jeera Chicken " which uses cumin

> seeds as the main spice. I believe that cumin seeds would be the item you

> are looking for. However, I don't know if they mean regular cumin seeds,

or

> black cumin seeds. If you can't get the seeds, let me know - there's a

great

> little Indian grocery around the corner from me and I could post some to

you.

>

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