Rice Recipes Sri Lankan

Lemon Rice

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi May 27, 2011

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Recipe for 2 servings

Ingredients:
Cooked Basmathi or long grained Rice enough for 2 person

Juice from 2 small limes or juice of half of a lemon
Salt
Curry leaves – a few

Seasoning:
Oil – 1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
Urud Dal – 1 tsp
Few dry red Chilli
Fennel seed 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp

Method:

Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds. Allow mustard seeds to splutter

Then add fennel seed, chilly & curry leaves.

In few seconds ,add turmeric powder & mix well.

Add lime juice and salt to the seasoning.

Now gently mix rice to the pan

Serve hot.

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Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes,you will also find travel,health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is the founder of Sihela Consultants.(www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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kadirecipes July 29, 2011 - 7:12 am

oh yummy. Never knew about lemon rice. Will try this out. Tell me can i serve this with some stew like chicken or any meat?

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Carole September 30, 2012 - 11:49 pm

Hi there. Food on Friday: Lemons and Limes is open for entries. This looks like a neat one! I do hope you link it in. This is the link . Cheers

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Carole October 1, 2012 - 8:24 pm

Thanks for linking this one in. Have a super week.

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