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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
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Servings: 5 people
Course: Brunch, Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine: South Indian
Calories: 286
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

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

Equipment

  • Shallow cooking pot

Method
 

  1. Heat the oil in your cooking pot, over medium flame, and add the mustard seeds and the dals
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Now add the lemon juice and the coriander leaves and mix in well. Cover and let it sit for 5 minutes before serving
  5. Serve this delicious South Indian lemon rice just as is or with some pickles, yoghurt and papads. Enjoy!
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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