Saturday, December 10, 2011

Bachelor Cooking # 10 - Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice Recipe

Lemon rice with potato curry is a great combination. 

Ingredients needed
Rice -1 cup
Lemon -1 (juicy one)
Cashew nuts- 5 -6
Salt to taste
Oil - 3 tsp

For the seasoning
Mustard -1/2 tsp
Urad dal -1 tsp
Channa dal -1 tsp
Red Chillies -1
Green chillies -2
Finely chopped ginger-1 tsp
Turmeric Powder -1/4 tsp
Asafoetida -A pinch
Curry leaves -little

Method
  • Cook rice. Spread it in a plate, mix a tsp of sesame seed oil to it, so that the grains will not stick together.
  • Heat oil, add mustard seeds, when mustard splutters , add urad dal, channa dal, red chillies and asafoetida .When dal turns slightly brown ,add green chillies, ginger, turmeric powder and curry leaves.
  • Squeeze lemon juice in a cup, add salt to it. Mix and add to the rice.
  • Add the seasoning to the rice and mix well. Add more lemon juice if required.
  • Add roasted cashew nuts and eat with potatoes curry. 
Cheers!

1 comment:

  1. usually my mom mix that lemon juice along with second point you have mentioned here...My mom's special, really superb, i never even leave those red chillies which is good in taste as it was cooked along with this lemon juice and other items (2nd point)

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