Carrot Lemon Rice

        Day 4 of Blogging Marathon under the theme " Easy Kids Lunch box recipe - Rice" and today's easy lunch box recipe is Carrot Lemon Rice. For a change i added shredded carrots to the usual lemon rice. My kids don't like carrots so i always have to do some experiment with carrots. One such experiment was this Carrot Lemon rice. They love to eat lemon rice with more peanuts n cashew nuts so i added more carrots to it and feed simple lemon rice with loaded nutrition. You too try to feed carrots in this way n I bet they won't complaint n finish it off .Now to the recipe...

Ingredients

1. Cooked Rice   2 cups
2. Lemon juice   1/2 cup (juice of 2 large lemons)
3. Carrot   2 medium (shredded)
4. Cilantro   1 handful
5. Ginger   2 tbsp(finely chopped)
6. Curry leaves   1 sprig
7. Green chilli    3 no.s (finely chopped)
8. Salt    to taste

To Temper

1. Oil   1 tbsp
2. Sesame oil   1 tbsp
3. Mustard seeds   1/2 tsp
4. Chana dal   1 tbsp
5. Urad dal   1 tbsp
6. Peanut   2 tbsp
7. Cashew nut   2 tbsp

Method

• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and allow to pop.

• Then add channa dal,urad dal and ground nuts,cashew nuts and fry till golden brown.
• Add curry leaves,ginger,green chillies and fry for a minute and add turmeric powder.

• Then pour the lemon juice and enough salt and mix well.
• Bring this mixture to boil and when it starts boiling add shredded carrots n cilantro.

• Mix well and turn off the stove.
• Allow this mixture to cool for a while and then mix it with cooked rice. Mix gently, check salt n adjust it.

• That's it...Tangy n Yummy Carrot Lemon Rice is ready to serve.I served along with Potato Podimas. 

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