Nimmakaya Annam ~ Lemon Rice
Yesterday was a busy day and meant less time in the kitchen. Made a simple, lemon-flavored, vibrant colored rice that was not only quick to prepare but brightened up my day. Relished it with yogurt and papads. An all time favorite especially during travel and as picnic food. Love the way how a pinch of turmeric adds color and the visual appeal of seasoning of spices, curry leaves and peanuts, nestled among the rice.
Lemon Rice
Prep & Cooking: 30 mts
Serves 3-4 persons
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1 cup raw rice, cook rice with each grain separate
8-10 curry leaves
juice of 3 lemons (approx 6-7 tbsps) adjust
3-4 tbsps roasted peanuts
salt to taste
Tempering/Poppu/Tadka:
1 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1 1/2 tsps urad dal/minappa pappu/split gram dal
1 tbsp channa dal/senaga pappu/bengal gram
2 dry chillis, tear and de-seed
pinch of hing
1/2 tsp grated ginger
2 green chillis, slit
1/4 tsp haldi/turmeric pwd/pasupu
1 Heat oil in a vessel, add the mustard seeds and as they begin to sizzle, add the dals and allow them to turn slightly red, add curry leaves, green chillis, grated ginger, red chillis and stir fry for few more secs. Add asafoetida and turmeric pwd, roasted peanuts and combine. Turn off heat.
2 Add salt to taste and 3/4th of the lemon juice and combine well. Add the seasoning and combine that it coats the rice well.
3 Taste and if you feel that it needs more tang, add more lemon juice accordingly.
4 Serve with any curry of your choice, yogurt and appadam.
By Sailu • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: All Recipes, Andhra Recipes, Lunch Box Recipes, Rice recipes, Vegan Recipes, Vegetables, Vegetarian Recipes
What a coincidence…..I too posted Lemon rice in my blog….adding ginger is new to me…will add next time to taste this yum looking lemon rice…
You can find the recipe here….http://kitchenflavours.blogspot.com/2009/11/lemon-rice.html
Thank you for the quick and delicious recipe Sailu. your website is like a ‘Cooking Gita’ to me….everytime I have to cook, I just open your site and always find something interesting to cook. Thank you so much for all the great work…:)
Simplicity is never out of fashion – so is Pulihora.
I wonder why you did not use the word pulihora!
Cheers
Kalyan
pulihora is different from nimakay anam. there u use tamrind.
Sailu, a simple recipe with rich flavors. I have a post on this dish in my blog too. A few inclusions more.
lovely pic. Love pulihora.
Gosh! This is lovely!
Perfect Lemon Rice or rather Picture Rice as it is called chitraanna in Kannada & Chitra means picture too,in Kannada…. Hence A PERFECT ‘PICTURE’ RICE!!!!!!!!!!
Ash….
(http://asha-oceanichope.blogspot.com/)
hmm. i love lemon rice. nice picture…
Addition of fresh grated coconut will give more taste…it is my daughter’s favourite lunch box item. ginger, green chilli and coconut gives more taste to lemon rice.we follow ur recipe when we need to store it for a whole day , especially during travel time. nice pictures…..
Looks delicious.
Paz
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Thanks for this nice quick lunch box recipie – wish to have more of this sort.