Vegetable Lemon Rice

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Pickle, Coconut Chutney | Type : Lunch

Ingredients

• Basmati Rice [boiled] - 1 cup
• Lemon Juice - 3 tbsp
• Turmeric Powder - ¼ tbsp
• Black Pepper - 3 to 4
• Carrot [Grated] - ¼ cup
• Coconut  [Grated] - 3 tbsp
• Green Capsicum[cut into long strips] - ¼ cup
• Curry Leaves - 1 spring
• Green Chilli - 1 [sliced]
• Ginger - 1 tbsp
• Mustard seed - 1 tbsp
• Bengal Gram - 1 tbsp
• Urad Dal - ½ tbsp
• Asafetida - ¼ tsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp

Preparation

• Heat pan with oil add put mustard seed. When it is started cracking add Bengal gram and urad dal. Then add ginger and green chilli
• Add black pepper, curry leaves, asafetida, and turmeric powder then mix well.
• Add carrot and green capsicum sauté well then add coconut sauté gently
• Turn off flame add lemon juice mix well. Add boiled rice, sprinkle salt as needed then mix. Add lemon juice if you wish.
• Serve and garnish with grated fresh coconut, grated carrot, coriander leaves at the top, it will gives nice color and great look

Note

• Don’t add lemon juice in the middle recipe would turn to bitter taste

Tip

• Instead of black pepper add freshly ground peppercorns at the end.