Recipe: Lemon Rice
Lemon Rice
This is a very popular south Indian rice dish, very easy to prepare.
Ingrediants:
- 6 Chillies, cut lengthwise
- 1 Onion
- Garlic 1/4 spoon
- 1 medium size Tomato
- Coriander leaves
- Curry leaves
- Mustard seeds
- Peanuts 1 cup (ground nuts)
- 1 Lemon
- 1/4 spoon turmeric powder (haldi)
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 cups rice
Method of preparation:
- Keep rice for cooking
- In a medium size pan first heat oil put Mustard seeds when hot then curry leaves
- Now add peanuts and fry until red, be careful not to overcook
- Now add chillies and fry for 1 minutes
- Now add onions and fry for 3 minutes
- Now add tomato and coriander leaves and boil for 6-8 minutes on medium heat, keep stirring once in a while
- In the end add lemon juice, turmeric, salt and mix everything well
- Once rice is done and cooled a bit, mix both
Enjoy this time honoured rice dish.
bon appetit