Simple Lemon Rice-Stepwise Pictures with Video-Tamilnadu style - 1 cup-255 Calories

Cuisine Style: Tamilnadu, India | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Any side dish | Type: Lunch or Dinner, Kannum pongal festival special

Boil rice then let it cool. Dry roast groundnut then peel off the skin.Heat oil in a pan, add seasoning ingredients, ginger, green chilli, curry leaves and groundnut saute. Add turmeric powder & asafetida mix well. Add rice and salt mix well. Finally add lemon juice mix well

Ingredients

• Lemon Juice - 15 ml or 3 tbsp
• Plain Rice - 2 cups
• Roasted Ground nut - 1/4 cup
• Green Chilly - 2
• Dry red chilli - 1
• Ginger - 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Mustard seed - 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram - 3 tbsp
• Urad Dal - 1 tbsp
• Peppercorn - 1 tbsp
• Curry leaves - 1 spring
• Asafoetida [hing]- 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil - 3 tbsp

Preparation Method

• Boil rice & spread over the plate to cool.
• Heat pan, pour oil and put mustard seed and let it splutter.
• Then add Bengal gram, urad dal, Peppercorn, green chilli, dry red chilli, ginger, turmeric powder, roasted ground nuts, Asafoetida and curry leaves saute.
• Add cooked rice, salt & mix well.
• Now mix the lemon juice mix well
• Pour Gingely oil mix well & cut off heat serve hot.

Tip

• Fine chopped small onions can be added.

How this Lemon Rice recipe is Unique?

• Adding peppercorn make this Lemon rice more tasty. Just try it out.

Lemon Rice video

How to make Lemon Rice- Step by step procedure & pictures [Method 2]

Seasoning with mustard, urad dal & bengal gram

Add peppercorns[Black pepper]

Add ginger & green chilli

Add roasted peanuts (groundnut)

Add curry leaves & asafoetida

Add turmeric powder

Add boiled rice and sprinkle salt mix well

Add lemon juice mix well then sprinkle gingelly oil mix well. cut off heat

Lemon rice is ready to serve

Tamilnadu style lemon rice