Lemon Rice - Elumichai Satham

My mom used to prepare lemon rice or tamarind rice, mostly with leftover rice. I too feel it is a good alternate instead of wasting the rice. This is very simply but tastes so good.

Ingredients

• Rice - 2 cups
• Lemon juice - 1 (big - which yields 4 to 5 tsp)
• Salt - as per taste
• Mustard seeds - 2 pinch
• Urud dhal (Black gram dal) - 1/2 tsp
• Chana dhal (Bengal gram dal) - 1/2 tsp
• Peanuts - 1 tsp (optional)
• Red chillies (dry) - 2 
• Curry leaves - few
• Oil - 2 tsp

Method

• In a bowl, add salt and squeeze the lemon juice.
• In a vessel, add oil, and when hot, add mustard seeds, urud dhal, chana dhal, red chillies and curry leaves.
• Fry till the dhal becomes light brown colour, add in the lemon juice, give a stir and switch off the stove.
• Add this to the rice and mix well.
• Lemon rice is ready to serve. 

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