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(Serves 2)
Ingredients:
1 cup regular Sona masuri or equivalent
1 big Lemon or 2 small Lemons
5-6 Green chillies,slit
1-2 Red chillies(optional)
2-3 tbsp chopped Coriander
a sprig of Curry leaves
2-3 tbsp Cashews,broken
2-3 tbsp Groundnuts
1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tbsp Chana dal
1 tsp Urad dal
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
Salt to taste
2-3 tbsp Oil
Method:
- Pressure cook rice(1 cup rice: 2 1/4 cups water) or how you cook your regular rice until it is soft and fluffy.The rice should be comparatively softer to eat and it should not be like how we do for pulav/biriyani.
- Squueze the lemon and separate the seeds and keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a kadai and crackle mustard seeds and add ground nuts and fry over medium flame until they are golden brown.
- Add cashew nuts,chana dal,urad dal,green chilies and fry until they turn golden brown and green chillies wilt.
- Add curry leaves and mix well and add turmeric powder and switch off the flame.
- Now take rice in a wide bowl and add the seasoning to it and add enough salt and mix well until everything is mixed.
- Add squeezed lemon with out seeds and coriander to it and mix well.
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- In order to make tasty lemon rice I always mix when the rice is hot and I like to eat it immediately
- Do not add lemon juice to the hot seasoning it will turn the rice bitter.Instead add lemon juice after you mix the rice with the seasoning.
- I added more number of chillies to the recipe,if you can not bear that much spice level feel free to reduce the number of chillies.
- It is always important to taste the rice and add salt,lime/lemon juice to it according to your taste buds.
- Always add less amount of turmeric powder and also add directly into the tadka which gives the rice a light greenish color instead of yellow color.
- Use regular rice like sona masuri,ponni or equivalent rice and I do not recommend using basmati rice for this.
- If you are making the rice ahead always use more lemon/lime and chillies than needed as the rice absorbs it and make it more tasty by noon.
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15 comments:
you captured well :) i love your photography
lovely lemon rice... beautiful presentation dear...
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love this lemon rice..yummy to eat and easy to make :)
lemon rice looks very tempting...lovely clicks :)
This is one of my favorite rice,beautiful clicks.
Delicious lemon rice, Nice clicks.
Yumm rice, and awesome clicks..
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Simple rice with nice presentation
A quick & a fav dish..Love it..!!
Prathima Rao
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simply delicious rice preparation with lemon
The lemon rice looks so appetizing. It reminded me to make it soon.
One of my favorite rice varieties, easy to put together and tastes great.
My favourite dish..today i cooked for first time..it tasted well..thank you for making it easy :)
Lovely Lemon Rice. By Cookscape
The Notes below the recipe is really notable. All the ingredients are well known to everyone but the perfect dish made by the perfection.
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