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Lemon Rice
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
This is one of favourite comfort food which is so simple to make and the flavours, amazing!! Coming from a place where rice is staple diet, there are some amazing things you can do to rice to give a zing, a zang and a twist to the same white rice.
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Basmati Rice: 2 cups( cooked in 2 cups of water and leave it cool).
- Basmati Rice: 2 cups( cooked in 2 cups of water and leave it cool)
1 Big lemon: Squeeze the juice and keep it aside.
- 1 Big lemon: Squeeze the juice and keep it aside
For tempering:
- 2 sprigs fresh curry leaves
- 1 tsp each of mustard seeds, black gram lentils, yellow split lentils
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 2 green chillies
- 1 inch ginger cut into very small pieces
- 1/4th cup groundnuts and cashewnuts(optional)
- 1 tbsp of sunflower oil
Method
step 1
Now take a saucepan and add tbsp of sunflower oil.step 2
Add groundnuts, cashewnuts, mustard seeds, black gram and yellow split lentils and saute for 2 minutes.step 3
As soon as the mustard seeds start spluttering, add green chillies, ginger pieces, curry leaves and saute for 1 minutestep 4
Now add turmeric and salt. Take the freshly squeezed lemon and pour the juice on and put a lid on the saucepan.step 5
Switch off and mix this with rice. Serve hot or cold with a pickle or on its own.
