Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon rice. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lemon rice recipe with traditional & instant pot methods - Lemon rice is one of the most popular South Indian rice recipes. It is a comfort food for many and is most commonly eaten for a meal. This easy Lemon Rice Recipe is bursting with lemon flavor! It's a delicious way to turn plain rice into an exotic dish and is the perfect accompaniment to any meats and/or veggies.
Lemon rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Lemon rice is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lemon rice using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon rice:
- Prepare 1 cup Basmati Rice :
- Get Seasoning
- Get 1 tbsp Oil or Ghee (vegetable oil or coconut oil)
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Urad dal (black gram)
- Make ready 1 pinch Fenugreek seeds
- Get 1/4 tsp Jeera (cumin seeds)
- Take 1 pinch Asafoetida(optional) a dash to the seasoning
- Prepare 7-10 Curry Leaves
- Prepare 2 Dry Red Chilli
- Take 1 Green Chilli (cut into thin slices)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Turmeric
- Make ready 1" piece Ginger piece(finely chopped)
- Take 1 &1/2 tsp Peanuts (optional)
- Take Garnish
- Get 1 Lemon (1/2 lemon juice for flavor, 2 rings of Lemon for garnishing)
- Get 1&1/2 tbsp Fresh Cilantro finely chopped
It's tempered with spices like mustard seeds, curry. Chitranna (Kannada: ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ; also known as lemon-rice) is a rice-based dish widely prepared in South India. It is prepared by mixing cooked rice with a special seasoning called Oggarane or Gojju. Characteristic for the seasoning are mustard seeds, fried lentils, peanuts, curry leaves, chillies.
Steps to make Lemon rice:
- Cook Rice with two cups of water with required salt and 1/4 tsp ghee added to it. Once the water comes to boil add salt, ghee and rice to it and simmer the flame and let it cook for 10 to 15 min or until done. Once don keep it aside to cool.
- Heat oil and add urad dal, fenugreek seeds and peanuts and wait till it is light brown in colour. Now add mustard seeds, once it sputters add cumin seeds, red chilli, curry leaves, chopped ginger, dash of asafoetida, turmeric powder and last the chopped green chilli. Immediately sprinkle this seasoning over the rice and also add lemon juice and chopped cilantro mix carefully so that the rice does not get broken or mushy.
- Serve it garnished with lemon rings
It is prepared by mixing cooked rice with a special seasoning called Oggarane or Gojju. Characteristic for the seasoning are mustard seeds, fried lentils, peanuts, curry leaves, chillies. Lemon rice is a delicious south Indian dish. Lemon juice gives a very refreshing and tangy flavor to the rice. Ingredients: for Rice This South Indian lemon rice dish is easy to throw together with leftover rice.
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