Chitranna recipe | Lemon rice chitranna recipe Begur, Bangalore Style

Cuisine Style: Karnataka | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Raita, pickles | Type: Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner

Ingredients

• Basmati rice – 2 cup [boiled]
• Lemon juice – 3 tbsp
• Roasted peanuts – ¼ cup
• Sambar onion [shallots] – 5
• Coconut – ¼ cup [grated]
• Green chilli – ½ [slit]
• Dry red chilli – 1
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Curry leaves – 2 springs
• Turmeric powder- ½ tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Gingelly oil – 1 tbsp
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Asafetida
• Salt to taste

Method

• Heat pan with oil add mustard seeds. Once it’s spluttered add Bengal gram, urad dal, and roasted peanuts. Then add onion sauté till soft.
• Add coconut, ginger, dry red chilli, green chilli and curry leaves sauté. Then add asafetida & turmeric powder mix well.
• Add boiled basmati rice and salt mix well. Then add lemon juice mix well.
• Sprinkle 1 tbsp of gingelly oil mix well & cut off heat. Serve hot with coconut chutney or pickles, chips.