Kerala lemon matta rice | Lemon brown rice

Cuisine Style: Kerala, Tamil Nadu,South india | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 3 | Type : Lunch, Rice | Take with : Pappadam, Pickle, Papad, appalam, chips, chutney, Stir fry or fry, varuval

Ingredients

• Kerala Rice - 2 cups [Boiled]
• Lemon Juice – 3 tbsp
• Ground nut – ¼ cup [Roasted & peeled]
• Sambar onion – 4 [chopped]
• Green Chilli – 1 [slit]
• Dry red chilli - 1
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves - 1 spring
• Mustard seed - 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram - 3 tbsp
• Urad Dal - 1 tbsp
• Peppercorn - 1 tbsp
• Asafetida - 1 tsp
• Gingelly oil – 1 tbsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation Method

• Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds & let it splutter. Then add Bengal gram, urad dal, & Peppercorns.
• Add onion sauté till soft. Then add green chilli, dry red chilli, asafetida, turmeric powder, roasted ground nuts & curry leaves sauté.
• Add boiled rice mix well then add salt & sprinkle lemon juice mix well & sauté for 2 min.
• Finally pour 1 tbsp of gingelly oil mix well & cut off heat serve hot.

Lemon rice