Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice!!!😃 One of the most famous rice recipe from South India. It is so tasty, light and easy to prepare. If you have cooked rice then it will take hardly 5 mins to prepare lemon rice. Yes, It's that easy and that quick recipe.

Ingredients:

Lime juice - 1/4 cup(Or to taste)

Cooked Rice - 3 cups

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Salt - to taste

Ghee/ oil - 2 tsp or as you wish😉

Peanuts - 10-15

Chana dal - 1/2 tsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Dried red chillies - 2

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida - 1 pinch

Coriander leaves (Chopped) - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Mix salt, turmeric and lime juice with rice. You can increase or decrease the quantity of lime juice as per your taste. Rice should be hot while mixing.
• Heat ghee/ oil in tadka pan.
• Add peanuts. Sauté them for 2 mins on low flame.
• Add asafoetida, dried red chilli,  chana dal and urad dal. After half a minute add mustard seeds. Let it splutter. 
• Turn off the flame and add curry leaves.
• Add this tadka to lemon rice. 
• Mix it well and cover it for some time. 
• Garnish it with Coriander leaves before serving.