Tamil Nadu Easy Lemon Rice

Name: Tamil Nadu Easy Lemon Rice
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 250 gm Rice; 2 tbsp Oil; 10 gm Mustard seeds; 8-10 nos Curry leaves; 20 gm Bengal gram (Kadalaparippu); 20 gm Black gram (Uzhunnuparippu); 2-3 nos Red dry chillies (Kollamulaku); 1" piece Ginger (finely chopped); 2 nos Green chillies (finely chopped); 1 no Onion (finely minced, large); Turmeric Powder (A pinch); 10 gm Peanuts (Nelakadala); 1 no Lemon Juice; Salt (As reqd)

By AshaChakravarthy

• August 31, 2003

Tamil Nadu Easy Lemon Rice

Tamil Nadu style lemon rice

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine Tamil

Servings people

Ingredients

250 gm Rice
2 tbsp Oil
10 gm Mustard seeds
8-10 nos Curry leaves
20 gm Bengal gram Kadalaparippu
20 gm Black gram Uzhunnuparippu
2-3 nos Red dry chillies Kollamulaku
1" piece Ginger finely chopped
2 nos Green chillies finely chopped
1 no Onion finely minced, large
Turmeric Powder A pinch
10 gm Peanuts Nelakadala
1 no Lemon Juice
Salt As reqd

Instructions

Boil the rice till it is tender, strain water and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds, curry leaves, Bengal gram, black gram and red dry chilly and stir well.
When these turn a little brown in colour, add green chillies, chopped ginger, minced onions, peanuts and turmeric powder.
Stir well and keep on flame for two minutes.
Add pre-boiled rice, lemon juice and salt.
Keep on flame for about 3-4 minutes.

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Sobhana May 30, 2005

Good one!A slight variation will b adding roasted cashews & garnishing with coriander leaves before serving.

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anju July 2, 2008

nice recipe…came out well..thanks for sharing this..

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Anjali January 20, 2009

super dish!

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ashu October 8, 2008

I added grated coconut n garnished with corriander leaves….it was too good

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Sundar September 23, 2008

Wow!! Too good!!

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Mrs.Jasmine Prabhu January 30, 2008

Lime rice Receipe is awesome, I Loved it. Thank you.***********

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Nidhi Rakesh September 10, 2007

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Deepa January 28, 2009

Easy to make and tastes great!

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Parinita December 21, 2004

It is the best among all lemon rice recipies given in this site !!! Thanx 🙂

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kt September 7, 2006

perfect! thanks.

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Shinu July 20, 2006

The recipe is very tasty. I also garnished with little shredded coconut and chopped coriander leaves which turned out great.

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pradosh October 22, 2006

Awesome recipe. Till now, we have made it more than hundred times.

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Sangeetha Sudheesh November 27, 2006

Very easy to make & yummy tasty
Thank you very much Asha Chakravarthy for your tasty receipes

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meera March 25, 2007

super!!!!!!!!!good job asha…keep mailing such excellent recipes

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priya February 26, 2007

Thanks a lot for ur recipe. it was very nice.

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