Lemon Rice Recipe

Easy Lemon rice recipe that is flavour packed, easy to make South Indian rice recipe. You can serve lemon rice with plain yogurt or as a side dish with curry it makes one of the quickest lunch recipes that are simple and delicious. All you need is basic pantry ingredients and 20 minutes

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Course: Main Course

Cuisine: indian cuisine, south indian

Keyword: lemon rice, lemon rice recipe, rice recipes, south indian, south Indian breakfast

Prep Time: 2

Cook Time: 15

Servings:

Calories: 287kcal

Author: Rekha Kakkar

Equipment

Instant Pot
Non-Stick Pan (US)

Ingredients

Rice Ingredients

2 cups Rice
1 teaspoon Salt

Tempering ingredients:

1 teaspoon Turmeric.
¼ teaspoon asafoetida hing
1 teaspoon Urad dal
1 tablespoon Chana Dal
2 tablespoon Ghee
2 Curry leaves sprig
2 green chilli
2 tablespoon lime juice
2 tablespoon coriander leaves
4 tablespoon raw peanuts

Instructions

Cooking Rice in Rice Cooker

First, rinse rice two-three times in plenty of water till the water runs clear.
Now add these drained out rice to the rice cooker.
Add double the quantity of water as per rice. For 1 cup rice add 2 cups water. Add salt, mix everything together and cover with a rice cooker lid.
Switch on the steamed rice program and once the rice cooker switches to keep warm function. Rice is ready to be used.

Cooking Rice on Stove Top

First, rinse rice two-three times in plenty of water till the water runs clear.
Now add these drained out rice to the saucepan.
Add double the quantity of water as per rice. For1 cup rice add 2 cups water. Add salt, mix everything together and after first boil reduce the heat to slowest and cover with a lid.
After 10 minutes switch off the heat and let the pot stand covered for 6-7 minutes.

For making Lemon Rice tempering

On the stovetop place a pan and add ghee or oil as per your preference.
Now add raw peanuts and roast them on slow heat for 2-3 minutes.
Drain them out of the pan and in the same pan add mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal.
Fry them for a few minutes on slow heat and then add chopped green chillies and grated ginger, dried red chillies and curry leaves.
Saute’ them for a minute and then add turmeric mix and cook for 1 minute. Add 2-3 tablespoon water and cook this dal for 2-3 minutes to make dal slightly soft.

Assembling Lemon rice

Now add cooked rice and mix gently with tempering, add lime juice and cook for a minute more.
Add roasted peanuts and toss well.
Sprinkle some chopped coriander and enjoy a delicious bowl of lemon rice.

Notes

You can cook rice in the instant pot, on the stovetop in a pan or pressure cooker or rice cooker. You can use pre-cooked rice or make lemon rice with leftover rice.
I have used split urad dal in the tempering you can use skinned urad dal.
You can soak chana dal for a few minutes before but I used raw as I like the crunch you can use after soaking for a few minutes.
If you are using lemons you can also add some zest as well for a more lemony flavour.
If you can’t find raw peanuts you can use roasted peanuts but then you do not need to roast peanuts in ghee.

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