South Indian lemon rice
A fragrant and delicious, one pot rice recipe with the freshness of lemon juice in it. This is a great recipe to make use of left over rice, if you have
Equipment
- Shallow cooking pot
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked rice day old works best
- 1 tbsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp chana dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 7-8 fresh curry leaves
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- ¼ tsp asafetida hing
- 3-4 tbsp pink peanuts
- 1 dried red chilli
- 2-3 fresh chilis slit
- 3-4 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
- 1 tbsp oil
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat the oil in your cooking pot, over medium flame, and add the mustard seeds and the dals
- When the seeds splutter and the dals are well roasted, add the hing, peanuts, curry leaves and dried chili. Saute´until well roasted and then add the turmeric powder, over low flame
- Mix well and then add your rice, fresh chilis and the salt. Stir this in well and when everything is evenly mixed turn off the flame
- Now add the lemon juice and the coriander leaves and mix in well. Cover and let it sit for 5 minutes before serving
- Serve this delicious South Indian lemon rice just as is or with some pickles, yoghurt and papads. Enjoy!
Notes
- While previously made rice works best for this recipe, you can use a freshly made batch too. However, be sure to completely cool it down before you cook with it
- You may use cashews instead of peanuts, if you like
- You could also ad some grated ginger in step 2, if you would like to
- tsp - teaspoon
- tbsp - tablepsoon
- 1 cup = 250 millilitres