LEMON RICE.

Ingredients
1 ½ cups of basmati rice
5 tsp ghee
A pinch of asafoetida
2 dried red chillies
1 tblsp urad dal
1 tbp chana dal
½ cup of peanuts
½ tspn of mustard seeds
5-6 curry leaves
3 tblspns of lemon juice
½ tbsp turmeric water

Recipe
Pick, wash and soak rice for about thirty minutes. Drain and then boil in plenty of boiling salted water until almost done. Drain and keep aside.

Heat oil/ghee in a shallow pan or a kadai. Add a pinch of asafoetida. Add dried red chillies broken into two, urad dal, chana dal . Cook until dals change colour to light brown.

Add peanuts and mustard seeds. Let mustard seeds crackle, then add curry leaves. Mix turmeric water in this. Stir fry for half a minute. Add cooked rice, salt and lemon juice.