Lemon Rice Sevai

Ingredients

• Rice Sevai - 3 cups
• Mustard seeds - a pinch
• Urud dhall - 1/2 tsp
• Bengal gram - 1 tsp
• Green chillies - 3 (chopped finely)
• Onion - 1 (big) (chopped finely)
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Lemon juice - 2 tsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Corinader leaves for garnishing
• Oil - 2 tsp
• Water as required
• Salt as needed

Method

• Boil the water with little salt and switch off the stove.
• Add the rice sevai immediately to the boiled water and close it for 5 mts.
• Open the lid and filter out all the water and keep aside.
• Now in a kadai, add oil.
• When it is hot, add mustard seeds, urud dhall, bengal gram.
• When the seeds splutter, add the onion, green chillies, curry leaves and cook till the onion becomes transparent.
• Add the turmeric powder and salt.
• Add the sevai and mix well till the sevai changes its colour to yellow.
• Now add the lemon juice, mix again and switch off the stove.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
• Can be eaten as it is or can have even the pickle as the side dish.

[Note: Take the water quantity such that, all the sevai gets fully immersed in water]