Lemon Rice / Chitranna

The days when you don’t want to do more than what you already have and all you have is leftover rice, then this is the PERFECT dish for you. :o). You can try this with freshly made rice, but it turns out fluffy when you use cold rice/ cooled one. Lemon rice can be put together in 5 minutes.

Serves: 4 | Prep Time: 5 min. | Cooking Time: 5 min

Ingredients:

·         Cooked Rice – 4 cups (1 cup if uncooked – Cook the rice first and let it cool.)

·         Mustard seeds – ½ tsp.

·         Asafetida or Hing – 2 pinch

·         Peanuts – 3 tbsp.

·         Black split gram/ Urad daal – 1 tsp.

·         Curry leaves – 10

·         Green Chili – 3 (split in center)

·         Onion – 1 medium sized (1 cup chopped)

·         Ginger – 1 tsp. finely chopped

·         Turmeric powder – ½ tsp.

·         Lime juice – 1 tbsp.

·         Oil – 2 tbsp.

·         Salt to taste

Method of Preparation:

~  In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oil and as mustard seeds.

~  After the mustard start crackling, add hing, peanuts and urad daal

~  Fry peanuts for about 2 minutes (until nice aroma starts coming).

~  Add green chili, curry leaves, chopped onions and ginger.

~  Continue to fry until Onion becomes translucent.

~  Now add turmeric powder and half of the lime juice and mix.

~  Add rice, salt to taste and the remaining lime juice.

~  Mix everything thoroughly and switch off the heat after 3 or 4 minutes, otherwise rice starts to stick to the bottom.

~  Serve it hot with pickle or cucumber raita.

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