Magic Lemon rice powder

Kitchen tip # 87

by CHEF Kishore
Your Personal Chef.

Magic Lemon rice powder 

This amazing seasoning saves 90 percent of your cooking time using this powder you can make lemon rice in less than 10 mins.

Ingredients :- 

• 200 gm Moong dal 
• 100 gm urad dal 
• 20 gm shahi jeera (caraway seeds )
• 30 gm Rai seeds(mustard seeds )
• 2Tsp haldi powder(turmeric powder )
• 10 gm nimbu dana (citric acid crystals)
• 1/2 tsp methi dana (Fenugreek seeds)
• 1/4 th teaspoon Hing (asafoetida)
• 1 tablespoon Laal mirch powder (spicy chilli powder) 
• 1 Tablespoon salt

To add after grinding. 

• 6 chopped dry kashmiri lal mirch 
• 100gm crushed Roasted Moong phalli (ground nuts)
• 100 gm urad dal

Roast these three ingredients with 1 tablespoon of ghee,let them cool completely and then 
crush them under a rollin pin (belan) and keep the mixture aside . 

Method . 
Dry roast the moong dal for about 5 minutes and add them to a mixer grinder along 
with shahi jeera , rai , haldi powder,nimbu dana ,meethi dana, hing, laal mirch powder , salt , 
and blend them to a fine powder .
transfer the ground powder into a big bowl .Add the peanuts , chilli flakes & urad dal to the powder  mix well . store this in a airtight jar in the fridge . 

Additional recipe :- (single serving )
Add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil to a non stick frying pan . 
fry 2 sprigs of fresh kadi patta , ,4-5 chopped green chillies, 1 tsp of rai , 1/2 tsp shahi jeera , 1 tablespoon of ginger garlic paste , add 4 handfuls of pre cooked rice  and 1 tablespoon of the lemon rice seasoning powder 
and mix throughly . sprinkle 20 ml of water (if u like it mushy and pasty ) and cover the pan . cook for about 10 minutes . garnish with freshly chopped corainder .Yummy Tangy lemon rice is ready. 
(The following garnishing is completely optional but it will raise ur humble lemon rice to a 5 star restaurant quality lemon rice . )Garnish with crispy fried curry leaves ,fried broken Kashmiri chilis,fried cashews ,crispy fried coconut shavings ,fried crispy chopped garlic ,fried vertically slit green chillies & freshly chopped coriander leaves .

Foot notes .

• This is by far the fastest standalone meal  you can rustle up in the kitchen (Provided cooked rice is lying around ), twice as fast as you can make Maggi . 
• This seasoning is a must for your kitchen shelf . It has Bailed me out so many times and proved to be a really handy recipe because  its so easy to make and is ready almost even before I begin to realize that I am cooking in the kitchen.  

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