Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Lemon Rice

Lemon rice might seem like a simple recipe but it makes a huge difference when an expert makes it. I would like to share this recipe with you all.

Ingredients:

Lemon juice extract from 2 lemons
Rice cooked with 1.5 glass rice
Small onion - 1 cup (sliced)
Garlic - 7 cloves
Green chilli - 3 cut into quarters
Channa Dal (Kadalai paruppu) - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaf - 10 leaf (approx)
Turmeric - 1/3 tsp
Salt as required
Oil as required

Method:

In a pan, heat oil.
Once oil gets hot, add mustard, urad dal, Channa dal, curry leaf.

Once the mustard splutter, add garlic, green chilli and onion

Immediately add turmeric, salt and lemon.

Now onion will change its color to pink, now add rice.

Switch off stove and mix.

Now tasty lemon rice is ready.

Note: 

Do not keep the stove on after the onion turns pink. Cooking lemon for a longer time will bring bitter taste.
Make sure the rice is warm before adding.
Before serving, let it rest for a while so that the rice absorb all the flavors.
Lemon that I have mention is of Indian lemon size (All NRI, note this point) ;-)

Tips:
Adding peanut during thalippu will add more taste to it.



2 comments:

  1. Hi
    Hope it's ayya tips to add small onions.

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    1. Yes. It is aaya's tip. It is used as an indicator to determine when to stop cooking lemon. It is very helpful tip for beginners.

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