Leman Rice

Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup
  
• Lemon - 1(Extract juice from a lemon) or 3 to 4 tbspns of fresh lemon juice
• Salt - As required
• Mustard seeds and Urad dal - 1 teaspoon
• cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
• Peanuts - 1/4 to 1/2 cup
• cashew Nuts -10 No
• Chana dal(Kadalai paruppu) - 2 teaspoons
• Green chili - 2 to 3
• red chili - 2 to 3
• Curry leaves - 1 spri
• Hing(perungayam) - 2 to 3 pinches
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
• Oil - 4 to 6 spoons(as required)

How Ton Make

1. Cook Rice with Salt and keep it aside. Each cooked rice should be well separated and fluffy.
2. Heat Oil in a pan. Add Mustard seeds, Urad dal and Cumin seeds, fry for less than a minute.
3. After that add Peanuts,cashew nuts and Chana dal, fry till it turns into light brown color.
4. Add Green chilies, Red chilies and Curry leaves. Fry till the dals turns into nice golden brown. Take care not to burn the dals or chilies while you fry.
5. Add Hing,Turmeric powder and a pinch of salt , fry for a minute. Remove the pan from heat.
6. Finally add the cooked rice and lemon juice to it and mix well with the other ingredients.