This rice has a pleasant aroma. Can be packed for lunch.
Ingredients
- Raw rice – 1cup
- Lemon – 1 large
- Green chillies – 2
- Curry leaves – a few
- Bengal Gram dal – 1 tea spoon
- Mustard – 1 tea spoon
- Urad dal – 1 tea spoon
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tea spoon
- Red Chilli – 1 (optional)
- Oil – a table spoon
- Asafoetida – a pinch
- Ghee – 1 teaspoon
- Cashew nuts – 5 nos ( cut into pieces)
- Salt -to taste
Method
- Pressure cook rice with 2 cups of water. Each grain should be separate.
- Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard, when it splutters add the bengal gram dal, urad dal, red chillies and add cashews after a while. Fry till golden.
- Add green chillies and curry leaves, fry for a moment and put off the flame.
- Squeeze lemon and take its juice.
- *Take rice in a shallow bowl, add 1 teaspoon ghee, salt, asafoetida, turmeric powder and pour the lemon juice. Add the seasoning from the kadai.
- Mix lightly when rice is slightly cool with a **thuduppu.
Variation :
Ginger cut it into fine pieces can be added with the seasoning. Will help in digestion.
*Adding ghee helps in separating the rice grains.
**A flat laddle used to turn dosas.
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So kind of you Latha, I don’t mind if you link and mention my recipe in your blog :)I will check the rice recipes you have posted 🙂
This looks so good. I just wish that I could find curry leaves locally. Do you think curry powder would work?
Hi Viji,
I liked your recipes for coconut and lemon rice. I love South Indian food.I am going to need all these festival recipes in November when the theme for RCI (Regional cuisine of India ) would be Tamil festival foods.
Every month there are so many events going on in food blogosphere it is fun to participate.
All bloggers and non bloggers can take part.
Thanx for sharing 🙂
This is my favorite quick meal!!:)
Hi Akeminyx,
Curry powder has totally different ingredients.This is used to add flavour to some Indian currys.
Curry leaves or karuveppilai in tamil got its name as it is extensively used to garnish currys.
Still it is ok to make this rice without curry leaves. Or may be you try adding 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder.
latha.
Nice replies in return of this question with real arguments and
explaining the whole thing regarding that.