Presenting to you one of the quickest lunch recipe that simple and delicious. It’s lemon rice which is one of the most popular lunch box recipes most South Indians opt for. It needs no fancy ingredients, can be made in less than 20 minutes.
Why We Make Lemon Rice For Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner?
Ask any South Indian which is that one recipe they swear makes their life easy, and you will most probably get an answer ‘lemon rice’, ‘elumichai sadam’.
Be it for your quick lunch for busy mom’s at home, or pack it in your lunch boxes, lemon rice makes it’s way to most household weekly menu.
Lemon rice is also the most popular rice that people love to pack for their travel.
Lemon rice is a life saver when you are not in a mood to spend elaborate time in the kitchen.
It can be made in a jiffy and you have a flavour packed, delicious, comforting rice that can be eaten as it is or serve it with papad, potato chips or even some pickle(why not!)
The tang in the pickle and the tang in lemon rice makes you feel wanting for more. If you love tangy things! 😀
Ingredients Needed For Lemon Rice Recipe
The recipe starts with cooked rice. Fresh steamed rice is best, you can also use leftover rice if you have in fridge.
- Cooked rice
- For Tempering –
- Oil
- Mustard seeds
- Urad Dal
- Channa Dal (bengal gram)
- Fresh ginger, minced fine
- Peanuts
- Curry leaves
- Fresh green chilies
- Dried red chilies
- Asafoetida
- Turmeric powder
- Salt
- Fresh squeezed lemon juice
- For garnish –
- Fresh grated coconut (optional)
- Fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped (optional)
How To Make Lemon Rice?
- Heat oil before adding mustard seeds. Let the seeds splutter. Saute urad dal and channa dal and wait till they turn brown.
- Add peanuts and saute till peanuts are browned.
- Curry leaves goes in and then add ginger and asafoetida.
- Add chopped green chilies along with dried red chilies. Add turmeric powder, salt to taste, mix well.
- Remove the pan from stove and the mix cool completely.
- Now pour lemon juice, give it a good mix.
- Add this mixture little at a time to cooked rice and mix gently. Mix as much lemon mixture you need to the rice, check by tasting in between.
- Remove rice from heat and let it cool down little bit.
- Add grated coconut along with chopped coriander and mix well.
- Serve immediately with papad or potato fry.
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Quick Lemon Rice
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice cooked
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon ginger chopped
- 1 teaspoon asafoetida
- 2 teaspoon urad dal
- 2 teaspoon channa dal
- 2 tablespoon peanuts
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 2 dried red chilies broken
- 3 green chilies chopped
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- 2 lemon juice extracted
- 4 tablespoon fresh grated coconut
- 2 tablespoon coriander leaves
Instructions
- Heat oil before adding mustard seeds. Let the seeds splutter. Put urad dal and channa dal and wait till they turn brown.
- Add peanuts and saute till peanuts are browned.
- Curry leaves goes in and then add ginger and asafoetida.
- Add chopped green chilies along with dried red chilies. Add turmeric powder, salt to taste, mix well.
- Remove the pan from stove and the mix cool completely.
- Now pour lemon juice, give it a good mix.
- Add this mixture little at a time to cooked rice and mix gently. Mix as much lemon mixture you need to the rice, check by tasting in between.
- Remove rice from skillet and let it cool down a bit.
- Add grated coconut along with chopped coriander, mix well.
- Serve immediately with papad or potato fry.
Shubha
Looks very delicious
jyothirajesh
Thank you Subha