Lemon Rice Recipe | Chitranna Recipe
Ingredients
- Raw rice- 1 cup
- Peanuts- Fistful
- Green chillies- 2 no.
- Lemon- Half of big sized
- Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
- Salt- 3.4 tsp
- Chopped coriander leaves- Fistful
Seasoning ingredients
- Cooking oil- 5 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
- Split black gram lentil urad dal- 1/2 tsp
- Split chickpea lentil chana dal- 1/2 tsp
- Broken red chillies - 2 no.
- Curry leaves- Few
Instructions
Preparation
- Pressure cook rice as you normally do, but ensure that rice grains are separate not sticky. As the pressure subsides keep the cooked rice outside or spread on a wide bowl for cooling.
Method
- Heat a wok/ Kadai adding cooking oil, cumin seeds, urad dal and chana dal. Saute for a while when the lentils turn little brown add red chillies, curry leaves, peanuts and slit green chillies.
- When the peanuts are roasted well add turmeric powder and salt. Mix well and switch off the flame.
- Transfer this seasoning to cooked rice in the bowl and squeeze lemon too. Mix well using a spatula. Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Yummy one pot meal lemon rice is ready. Relish this on lazy days when you are not in a mood to cook elaborate meal.
Notes
- You can make many variations by adding onion or grated coconut or cashews to the seasoning.
- You can also soak peanuts for sometime and then include. It will give soft and crunchy taste as you bite them.
- As the name suggests lemon rice should taste tangy side. So add lemon juice accordingly.
- You can make this using left over rice too.