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Lemon Rice

Ingredients

Fresh and fragrant lemon rice cooked with nuts and lightly toasted spices.

A cracking South Indian dish great to eat on its own or as a side. There are so many different things you can do with rice, from cooking the rice with different ingredients as in a briyani or a pilau, or using left over rice and add some new simple flavours and textures to create an altogether new dish. 

4 tbsp vegetable oil or 2tbsp coconut oil

1 tsp mustard seeds

7-10 curry leaves

3 green chillies

1 tsp salt

½ tsp turmeric

2 tbsp peanuts or cashew nuts

2 lemons

200g Tilda Basmati rice

Method

  1. Wash the rice until the water runs clear.
  2. In a wide based pan add the washed rice, pour in 500ml of water (twice the amount of water to rice). Bring the water to a rolling boil, reduce the heat to the lowest setting and place the lid on the pan. Leave to cook for 12 minutes.
  3. Remove from the heat, very gently fork through it and leave to cool.
  4. In a separate pan heat the oil and add the mustard seeds. As they begin to splutter add the peanuts or cashews and fry to a golden brown colour. Add the turmeric powder, the curry leaves, green chillies and salt - fry for a minute.
  5. Remove from the heat and stir into the rice.
  6. Squeeze in the juice from the lemon and mix through carefully until all the rice is beautifully bright yellow.

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By Hari Ghotra

Hari Ghotra

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