Lemon Rice Recipe | How to make Lemon Rice Recipe | (Lemon Rice Recipe south Indian)

Hi friends, thank you all for visiting my website and @EATeasyvegrecipes youtube channel. Today's recipe is lemon rice recipe. Lemon rice or chitrannam or nimmakay pulihora as we call it in Telugu is really a very easy dish to prepare. Lemon rice is a regular dish among south indian households. Lemon rice is made with cooked rice, tempering spices, curry leaves and lemon juice. The tangy taste of lemon juice and little spicyness from the fried green chillis tastes heavenly. Lemon rice can be made even with leftover rice also. Kids love to eat fussy free food in their lunch boxes. Lemon rice is one of the best choice for their lunch box.
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Lemon Rice Recipe | How to make Lemon Rice Recipe | (Lemon Rice Recipe south Indian)
Author: Sailaja Angara
Preparation Time: 5M
Cooking time: 25M
Servings: 4 people

Lemon rice, Chitrannam or nimmakaya pulihora is the best choice for kids lunch box ideas.

Ingredients:

• 1 and 1/2 Cup Rice
• 4 to 5 Green Chillis
• 4" Long Ginger
• 1 or 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
• Salt to Taste
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 1 tbsp Peanuts
• 1/2 tbsp Chana Dal/Bengal Gram
• 1/2 tbsp URad Dal/Black Gram
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
• 2 or 3 Red Chillis
• 5 to 7 Curry Leaves
• 1 tsp Asafoetida

Procedure:

1. Slit green chillis and finely chop ginger.
2. Wash the rice.
3. Pressure cook rice with 1:2 ratio of water.
4. For 1 Cup of rice add 2 cups of water.
5. Here I am using 1 and 1/2 cup of rice so adding 3 cups of water.
6. Cook the rice for 3 whistles.
7. Once rice cooked and the pressure cools down.
8. Transfer the rice into a wide plate to cool.
9. Meanwhile in a thick bottomed kadai, heat oil.
10. Add peanuts and fry them till they change color.
11. Add chana dal and urad dal.
12. Fry them till they turn golden brown.
13. Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds too.
14. As soon as the mustard seeds started spluttering add whole red chillis.
15. Add slit green chillis and chopped ginger.
16. Saute them for a minute.
17. Add asafoetida and saute it well.
18. Add salt and turmeric powder.
19. Fry them well.
20. Add this tadka to the above spread rice.
21. Mix it well so that all the tastes combines well with rice.
22. Add lemon juice to the rice.
23. Mix it well and check the taste.
24. If the salt is not suffiecient add a little.
25. Serve lemon rice as it is.