How to Make Lemon Rice?

Hello everyone,
Lemon Rice is an easy to cook menu which lasts for hours even without refrigeration. It is a famous dish in South India. South Indians prefer Lemon rice for long travel. Lemon is enriched with Vitamin C and its juice gives a refreshing flavour to the rice. Let us move on to the recipe now.

Lemon Rice

Ingredients:

• Boiled Rice - 500gms
• Lemon - 2
• Mustard seed - 1/2 spoon
• Split black gram -1 spoon
• Green Chilly - 5
• Red Chilly - 2
• Turmeric powder - pinch
• Asafoetida  - pinch
• Curry leaves, Coriander leaves.
• Salt (as per your wish)  

Procedure:

• Extract  juice from the lemons.
• Heat the oil in a pan and put mustard seeds and allow it to crackle.
• Fry the black gram seed along with it.
• Saute red chilly, green chilly, curry leaves, coriander leaves in the same pan.
• Add turmeric powder, asfoetida and salt and take the pan off the stove.
• Add the boiled rice and mix it well.
• Sprinkle the lemon juice all over the rice and mix thoroughly.
• Garnish it with fresh coriander leaves.

Is lemon rice your favorite rice dish? How do you make it?