Lemon Rice - Popular South Indian Rice Dish || Easy Lemon Rice recipe || Quick Lunch Box Recipe

Lemon rice is a very common rice dish in sounthern India.Very easy to prepare within few minutes with very few common ingredients.It has very crunchy,lemony and salty taste.

Ingredients:

• Bengal gram ( chana dal) -- 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder -- 1 tsp
• Cashew nuts -- 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Long grain Rice/ Basmati rice/any regular rice (Cooked) -- 300gms
• Curry leaves - 1 strip
• Handful of chopped coroender leaves
• Roasted peanuts-- 2 tbsp
• Mustard seeds -- 1 tsp
• Urad dal -- 1 tsp
• Dried red chilli-- 2
• Chopped green chllies -- 1 tsp
• Lemon juice -- 2 tbsp
• Sugar 1 tbsp
• Refined oil -- 3-4 tbsp

Method:

1. Heat the pan with 3 tbsp of oil.
2. Add mustard seeds and let them crackle.Once it begins to cracle
3. add 1 tsp of bengal gram
4. 1 tsp of udad dal
5. 2 tbsp of roasted peanuts
6. Saute everything for few seconds.
7. Now add 2 dried red chillies
8. 2 tbsp cashew nuts
9. Curry leaves
10. Saute for few seconds.
11. Now add steamed rice, 1 tsp of tumeric powder.
12. Stir very gently
13. Now add salt according to your taste.
14. 1 tsp of sugar.
15. Mix everything very gently.
16. Now add 2 tbsp of lemon juice
17. 1/2 tsp of chopped green chilli
18. hndful of coriender leaves
19. Mix well.Serve hot with coconut chutney/Raita/pickle.