Lemon Rice Recipe | Elumichai Sadam | How to make Lemon rice
Lemon is an authentic variety rice from South India where rice is flavored with tangy lemon juice and seasoned with spices. This dish is commonly made during festivals, special family traditional occassions and also served as prasadam in temples. (Ellumichai Sadam / Ellumichai Satham / Lime rice / Chitrannam)
Lemon Rice Recipe
Lemon rice - one of the authentic South Indian main course, where cooked rice is flavored with zesty tangy lemon juice and seasoned with spices.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp Chana dal
- 1/2 tsp Split black gram
- 10 each Peanuts
- 2 each Dry Red Chili
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida
- 5 leaves Curry leaves
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/4 cup Lemon juice juice of 2 lemons
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 cups Cooked rice
Instructions
- Heat oil in the pan.
- Splutter mustard seeds, chana dal, split black gram and peanuts. Fry until it turns lightly golden.
- Add curry leaves, dry red chili, asafoetida, turmeric powder and salt.
- Now add the lemon juice and turn off the heat.
- Add cooked rice and mix until combined well.
- Serve with simple potato fry!
Notes
Lemon rice tends to taste better if served after few hours as the rice absorbs more of the tangy lemon flavor if its soaked longer.
Peanuts are optional, you may even use few cashews if desired.
8 Comments
Hi Mullai, Excellent recipe. I also do the same but I used green chillies and ginger as in tamil style. Since, I get lemon juice in Sydney, I use the juice instead of lime. But I am always concerned about the amount of lemon juice to use. Please can you advice me on how many table spoons of lemon jiuce should we use for one cup of rice. Thank You, Cheers, Hulda
This recipe is good! thanks Mullai di!
hey mullai i add a little bit of coconut to this lemon rice.it is always my favourite dish. 🙂
Hai Mullai,
lemon juice kodhika vaikavae vendaama??? direct’a rice’la mix panidanuma?
Jeyalakshmi,
No need, you can directly add it to the rice. See that you add little by little, so that its doesn't taste too sour.
sure, Iam hema. Love ur dishes.
excellent, tastes like the perumal temple prasadam.
keep it up.
Could you pls identify yourself.