Lemon Rice - Kids Lunch Menu
By: Helen
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 7:36pm

Ingredients




Cooked Basmati rice - 2 cups
Lemon juice out of 2 big lemons
Red chillis - 3 ( do not add if you are cooking for your kids)
Mustard seeds
Cashews - 5
Curry leaves
Turmeric - 1/4 tbsp
Salt
Asafoetida - pinch
Oil

Preparation

1 1. Cook Basmati rice & keep it ready. Take juice out of the lemons & keep it ready too. 2 2. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in the heavy bottom frying pan. Add mustard seeds. When mustard splatters add cashews & fry until it becomes golden color. 3 3. Then add turmeric powder, asafoetida, salt, curry leaves & red chillies ( I did not add red chillis because I made this rice for my daughter). 4 4. Fry for few seconds and then add lemon juice & reduce the flame to sim. 5 5. After a minute add the cooked rice & mix thoroughly so that the rice completely blends with the lemon juice extract & other ingredients. 6 6. Check the salt, if required add again & mix it well. Let it cook for 5 mins. 7 7. Now lemon rice is ready. Garnish with coriander & mint leaves. 8 8. Lemon rice will be delicious with potato fry, channa gravy, egg masala etc.

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Lemon Rice - Kids Lunch Menu