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Lemon rice

Yesterday’s rice, woken up with mustard seed and lemon.

Lemon rice
Photo: Radhikapavan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A photo of the dish, not of these exact recipes.

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How to make lemon rice

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The proper tempering

15 minutes · serves 2 · Easy

What you need

  • 400g cooked rice, cold
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 tsp urad dal
  • A handful of peanuts
  • 10 curry leaves
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 1 lemon

What you do

  1. 1Heat the oil and add the mustard seeds. Wait for them to pop — they will, all at once.
  2. 2Add the urad dal and peanuts and fry until both are gold, then the curry leaves, which will spit.
  3. 3Turmeric in, off the heat, then the rice, broken up with your fingers first.
  4. 4Salt, then the juice of the whole lemon, and stir until every grain is yellow.

Five minutes with leftovers

5 minutes · serves 1 · Very easy

What you need

  • A bowl of cold rice
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1/4 tsp turmeric
  • Half a lemon
  • Salt

What you do

  1. 1Warm the oil with the turmeric.
  2. 2Rice in, broken up, tossed until it is evenly coloured.
  3. 3Lemon and salt off the heat.