Lemon rice recipe ( Chitranna recipe )

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Soaking Time 30

Total Time 1 5

Course Rice

Keyword chitranna, chitranna recipe, how to make lemon rice, indian lemon rice, lemon rice recipe, nimmakaya pulihora, south indian rice recipes

Servings

Calories 767

Author Koushik

Lemon rice recipe is a famous south indian rice recipes. It is also known as chitranna recipe or nimmakaya pulihora. Must try this quick and delicious lemon rice for your family.

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Ingredients

Lemon rice ingredients

15 cashew
50 grams peanut
2 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon mustard seed
1 teaspoon urad dal
1 teaspoon chana dal
1/2 tablespoon chopped ginger
1/2 tablespoon chopped garlic
2 chopped green chili
2 dried red chili
Pinch of hing
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
200 grams short grain rice or basmati rice
2 teaspoon lemon juice

Instructions

Frying nuts for chitranna
At first, for cooking chitranna melt butter in a pan.
Now roast peanuts and cashew on medium flame till become golden and crunchy.
Cooking rice for Chitranna recipe
At first cooking rice for chitranna recipe rinse rice then soak in sufficient water.
After that boil water along with a pinch of salt and a dash of oil in a kadai.
Next add drained rice, cover the lid and cook rice on medium flame till all the water has been absorbed and rice grains are tender and fluffy.
Now transfer the rice to a bowl or plate and set it aside to become cool at room temperature.
how to make lemon rice
Now heat oil in a pan and spread it evenly.
Then saute mustard seed, urad dal, and chana dal in medium flame till dal becomes golden.
Furthermore add chopped ginger, garlic, green chili, red chili and saute them for 1 min.
Next, add a pinch of hing, turmeric, salt, and dash of water and quickly mix until chana dal and urad dal becomes soft but crunchy.
Now add cooled cooked rice on tempering and gently mix without breaking.
After that add fried peanuts and cashews on lemon rice.
Finally squeeze lemon juice, a pinch of salt on lemon rice or chitranna and cover for 5 minutes to get aromatic flavour.

Notes

Lemon Rice Recipe Note

If you cook rice in pressure cooker then pressure cook for 8 to 10 minutes or for 3 to 4 whistles on medium-high heat. When the pressure settles down on its own in the cooker, then open the lid.
For fluffy lemon rice try to use completely cooled rice on tempering.

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