Recipe: Perfect Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice.

You can cook Lemon Rice using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Rice

1. It's 1 cup of heaped regular rice or 3 to 4 cups cooked rice (chawal).
2. Prepare 1.5-2 tablespoons of lemon juice (nimbu ka ras) or add as required.
3. It's 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds (rai).
4. You need 1 teaspoon of urad dal (spilt and skinned black gram).
5. Prepare 2 of dry red chilies (sookhi lal mirch).
6. You need 1-2 of green chilies, chopped.
7. You need 12-15 of curry leaves (kadi patta).
8. It's 1 of generous pinch asafoetida (hing).
9. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder (haldi).
10. Prepare 1 tablespoon of cashews (kaju) - halved or chopped (optional).
11. Prepare 1/4 cup of peanuts (moongphalli) - optional.
12. Prepare 2-3 tablespoon of sesame oil (til ka tel) - optional.
13. Prepare of rock salt (sendha namak) or regular salt as required.

Lemon Rice instructions

1. In a small frying pan, heat 1 to 2 tablespoons sesame oil. first fry peanuts till crunchy and then keep them aside. in the same oil, then fry cashews till golden. remove and keep aside. now add 1 tablespoon sesame oil in the same pan..
2. Add the mustard seeds and let them crackle. once the mustard seeds begin to crackle, add the urad dal. saute till the urad dal turns golden. fry everything on a low flame, so that the spices don't burn. then add the red chilies, green chilies (chopped) and curry leaves. sauté for a few seconds till the red chilies change colour. switch off the flame and add the asafoetida and turmeric powder. mix very well stir and immediately pour this tempering mixture on the rice..
3. Add the fried peanuts, cashews, lemon juice and salt. mix very well. keep the lemon rice covered for the flavors to blend for 4 to 5 minutes. then serve the lemon rice with papads or vadams and coconut chutney or just have lemon rice plain..