Lemon Rice Nimmakaya Pulihora
Nimmakaya pulihora Andhra recipe lemon rice is tasty flavoured rice.
Equipment
- Pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice
- 1/4 cup Lemon juice
- Salt as per taste
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric
For Tempering:
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 4 Green chillies
- 4 Red chillies
- 1/2 tbsp Urad dal
- 1/2 tbsp Split chana dal
- 1/4 cup Peanuts
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- Few sprigs Curry leaves
- 1 pinch Asafoetida
Instructions
- Wash the rice and soak for 30 mins.
- Add 1 ½ cups of water and pressure cook. Add a pinch of turmeric to the rice before pressure cooking.
- If you don’t want to pressure cook. You can follow this. Boil 5 cups of water in a large vessel. Add the soaked rice to it and bring it to a boil. Keep checking the rice by pressing a grain every 5 mins.
- Once you think, the rice is cooked till the required softness as per your taste, turn off the flame.
- Drain the water by tying a muslin cloth to the neck of the vessel. This helps to drain all the water from the rice.
- Transfer to a large mixing bowl or a vessel that will help you mix evenly and let it cool down.
- I generally pressure cook the rice.
- But this also tastes equally good. Elders in my family prefer making the rice for lemon rice this way.
- Try the method whichever is convenient for you.
- Keep the lemon juice ready. I had to take 4 large lemons to get ¼ cup of lemon juice. The number of lemons varies based on the juice that they contain. So just squeeze as many lemons that will give you ¼ cup of lemon juice.
- In a Kadai, heat the oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add the peanuts and fry till half done.
- Then add split chana dal and urad dal and fry.
- Once they start turning colour, add mustard seeds, green chillies, red chillies and sauté.
- Add the curry leaves and fry till crisp.
- Add asafoetida and turn off the flame.
- Also add the remaining turmeric and mix well.
- Now quickly transfer this tempering on to the cooled down rice.
- Let it cool.
- After cooling, sprinkle salt on the rice as per your taste.
- Gently mix using hands. Do not crush the rice. Be careful while doing this.
- After the tempering and salt are evenly mixed with the rice, add lemon juice.
- Gently mix again. Make sure you mix it thoroughly but gently.
- Once you mix it evenly, our lemon rice is ready to serve.
Notes
* As far tempering is considered, you can always add or delete the ingredients you like or dislike. Cashews, roasted almonds can be added to give this the kids.
** You also can add cumin to the tempering but I do not add cumin in lemon rice. I prefer to add cumin for tamarind rice.
*** The amount of lemon juice and chillies can be adjusted according to your taste.