, .

Lemon Rice / lunch box ideas
Written by Jayashree

Lemon rice is one of the pre-dominant dishes prepared in South Indian home. It is tasty, makes a good meal and is actually a festive delicacy. A traditional festive meal has it as one of the savoury dishes prepared without onion.

Today, I have a quick-fix lunch box menu. It is ideal to prepare for weekend dinner too. A quick dinner is ready if you have pre-cooked rice on hand. You may use fresh green peas instead of ground nuts.

This is a vegan and gluten-free food, considering that you are using gluten-free asafoetida.

Lemon rice is easy to prepare, filling, can be made with or without onion and one can use left over rice too.

Lemon Rice / lunch box ideas

INGREDIENTS :

  • 1 cup cooked rice
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  • 2 teaspoon bengal gram
  • 2 teaspoon urad dal
  • 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
  • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/4 cup peanut
  • 4 green chilly
  • a few curry leaves
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 1 lemon
  • coriander leaves for garnishing

PROCEDURE :

  1. Allow the rice too cool.
  2. Take oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. As it crackles, put bengal gram  and urad dal to it. Allow them to cook for a few seconds, throw in the peanuts and curry leaves. Stir occasionally. Add green chillies, turmeric powder and asafoetida to it.
  3. Now, put green chilli pieces, after a few second put the onion pieces to it. Let cook for sometime.
  4. Once it turns translucent, turn off the stove.
  5. Put rice to it. Add salt and mix it.
  6. Put lemon juice and chopped coriander to it.
  7. Lemon rice is ready to serve.

Take a tip:

  • Fresh peas may be added to it. Avoid using groundnuts if using peanuts.
  • Lentils taste good if they are crunchy, let them turn golden in colour.
  • Adjust the quantity of green chilly as per your liking.
  • Fresh coconut may be added if serving immediately. Avoid putting it in lunch box, it may turn stale.
  • Grains of rice should be separate.

This is an old post which I have redone now. Sending this to Foodies Redoing Old Post15, a group which we participate every fortnightly. I have updated the post with better pictures and text.

Lemon Rice / lunch box ideas

If you have liked this post, do leave a comment, I will be glad to hear from you. Are you making this dish? Take a picture and share it on Instagram by tagging @foodiejayashree or onFacebook by tagging @evergreendishes. I will share them further. Let’s be connected. Subscribe to get all updates in your inbox.

 

 

 

Lemon Rice / lunch box ideas

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

9 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
shubha
9 years ago

lemon rice is a great lunch box idea too..great recipe dear!!

kimberly
9 years ago

ohh! That looks absolutely yummy!!

marudhuskitchen
9 years ago

really flavourfull

poonampagar
poonampagar
4 years ago

Lemon rice is one of my favourite South Indian rice dish. Best part is that it’s tastes great in lunch box with some pickle.

Renu Agrawal Dongre
Renu Agrawal Dongre
4 years ago

Lemon rice is one of my easy lunch box idea when I have some left over rice. Loving your version with peanuts

Mayuri Patel
4 years ago

Yummy, always love how refreshing and tasty lemon rice is. What I like about this simple flavorful rice dish is that it tastes equally good when its cold.Makes good travel food.

FIND US EVERYWHERE

About

Hello and Welcome to my blog! I am Jayashree from India. An enthusiastic blogger, with a zest for life.  I believe in living life to the fullest.

Cooking has been my passion. I have always loved to try new recipes.  Writing has been a feel good factor and extremely  loving it. With these two passions of mine, my culinary blog was born. Read More…

ALSO FIND US ON

Popular categories

Related Post

Mughlai Vegetable Pulao

Mughlai Vegetable Pulao

Mughlai VegPulao is a rich, mildly aromatic  and delicious rice dish from Indian sub-continent. It is rich with the addition of nuts and fruit pieces. It makes a good meal for the weekend.  Rice dish in any form is always welcome...

Vegetable Pulav Recipe

Vegetable Pulav Recipe

Vegetable  Pulav is flavoursome and ideal for weekend lunch. The freshness of mint and coconut gives a good taste to this variety of pulao.  Usually Sundays call for something different and I end up making a variety of pulav. These folks come leisurely for breakfast...

Coconut Rice

Coconut Rice

Coconut Rice is a flavoursome, easy to make  rice dish from South India. The goodness of coconut  along with taste of cumin and curry leaves blend  well to give a tasty and easy to make dish. It can be eaten as it is or served...

Get your Free Copy Today

Cooking is a wonderful job if you love it. It helps you to make tasty dishes for your loved ones. But it can be a chore, if one has many errands at hand. Thus, one needs to cook efficiently. It can be done by using the handy hints which make cooking easier, by saving the time or making better dish by using an ingredient instead of other. Here are a hundred handy hints which I have put them in two different categories. One is store wise and the other is cook wise.

Get your Free Copy Today

Cooking is a wonderful job if you love it. It helps you to make tasty dishes for your loved ones. But it can be a chore if one has many errands at hand. Thus, one needs to cook efficiently. It can be done by using the handy hints which make cooking easier, by saving time or making a better dish by using an ingredient instead of other. Here are a hundred handy hints which I have put in two different categories. One store wise and the other is cook wise.

You have Successfully Subscribed!