Lemon Rice

Ingredients

1 ½ cup cooked rice

Salt to taste

Curry leaves / Coriander leaves / Cilantro

3 tbsp lemon juice

½ tsp turmeric powder

2 Green chilies / Serrano peppers  

2 Red chillies whole / smoked Serrano peppers                

2 tbsp Oil 

1 tsp Mustard seeds (optional)

¼ cup peanuts

Pinch of Asafoetida
1 tbsp Black gram split(dhuli urad dal) {kind of lentils}
1 tbsp Bengal gram split (chana dal) {kind of lentils}
¼ tsp fenugreek seeds (optional)

Directions

1.     Heat oil in a shallow pan. Then add  dhuli urad dal and chana dal. Cook till dal (lentils) changes its colour into light brown.

2.      Now add green chillies / Serrano peppers (split them into 2 pieces), red chillies whole / smoked Serrano peppers.

3.     Add peanuts, fenugreek seeds and mustard seeds. As mustard seeds crackle, add curry leaves and turmeric powder and a pinch of Asafoetida.

4.     Stir fry for half a minute in a medium flame.

5.     Finally add the cooked rice, salt to taste and lemon juice to it and mix them well.

6.     Cook on low heat for 2 mins and off the stove.