Lemon Rice

Cuisine Style Tamilnadu | Cooking Time 45 minutes
To Serve 4 | Take with any side dish
Type Lunch or Dinner

Ingredients

Lemon Juice - 15 ml
Plain Rice - 2 cups
Green Chilly - 3 nos
Ginger - Small piece
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Oil -3 tbsp
Mustard seed - 1 tbsp
Bengal gram - 3 tbsp
Urad Dall - 1 tbsp
Roasted Ground nut- 1/4 cup
Pepper - tbsp
Curry leaves
Asafoetida - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Preparation

Boil the rice in less water, spread over the plate to cool.
Dry roast pepper, grind and keep it aside.
Heat pan, pour oil and put mustard seed and let it splutter.
Then add Bengal gram, urad dall, green chillis, turumeric powder, roasted ground nuts, Ginger and curry leaves one by one.
Fry untill raw the smell goes off.
Now mix the lemon juice, stir all together for 2 minutes.
Add salt.
Mix the cooked rice and mix well.
Sprinkle pepper powder and Gingely oil

Note

Dont over heat the lemon gravy.

Tips

Fine chopped small onions can be added.

How this Lemon Rice recipe is Unique?

The powder mixture makes this Lemon rice more tasty. Just try it out.