Lemon Rice Recipe | Chithranna | South Indian Recipe | Easy breakfast Recipe

Lemon Rice Recipe | Chithranna | South Indian Recipe | Easy breakfast Recipe
Lemon Rice, which is popularly known as Chithranna in Southern India, is a popular dish of South Indian cuisine. It's one of the simplest rice recipes that you can make in just 10 minutes. In south India various rice varieties is also offered as a prasad in temples and lemon rice is also one of the prasad as its made without any onion and garlic.
Do check out this traditional Lemon Rice recipe which you can prepare in few minutes by following some simple steps given below...
Ingredients
• Cooked Rice - 2 Cups
• Oil - 3 tbsp
• Green Chili - 2
• Curry Leaves - 10 to 15
• Peanuts - 1/4 Cup
• Cashews - 10
• Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
• Urad Dal - 1 tsp
• Chana Dal - 1 tsp
• Hing - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - 1 tsp / As Per Taste
• Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
• Ginger - 1 inch Optional
• Lemon - 1 Small
• Water - 2 tbsp
Method:
1. Heat 2 tbsp oil in Pan and fry cashews and peanuts separately till turns light golden in colour and once done keep them aside for later use.
2. In the same pan add 1 more tbsp oil and add 1 tsp mustard seeds, allow it to splutter. Add urad dal and chana dal and fry it, keep the flame on low to medium.
3. Add green chili, curry leaves to pan and allow it to fry until curry leaves gives nice aroma and dal turns light golden in colour.
4. Add Hing, turmeric powder into pan and immediately add 2 tbsp of water to this. Allow it cook for few seconds so that dal will soften a bit yet slight crunchy in texture.
5. Add cooked rice to pan and stir everything together.
6. Add salt, fried cashews and peanuts to rice, stir it gently.
7. Turn off the heat and squeeze lemon juice on rice and stir it well. Lemon rice is ready to serve.
8. Garnish with some fresh coriander leaves(optional).
9. You can also add finely chopped ginger (1 inch) while adding green chilies.
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Nice Receipe.

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This is true, lemon rice easy to cook and super delicious... Thanks for sharing the reciepe...

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Thats true it has very simple flavours but it taste amazing.

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Good one...

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Looks easy to cook. Thanks for sharing.

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My pleasure 😊

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My favourite

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Very nice 👍🏻

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Nice recipe

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