Quick Recipes using Cooked Rice – Recipe 2

Lime Rice

Ingredients

• Cooked rice – 1 cup

• Lime (ripe) – 1

• Mustard seeds and Black gram (white and split) – ½ tsp

• Groundnuts – 1 tbsp (or more)

• Curry leaves – 2 to 3

• Ginger (optional, chopped) – ½ tsp

• Turmeric powder – a pinch

• Oil – 1 ½ tbsp

• Salt – according to taste

Preparation

1. In a deep frying pan, pour oil and when the oil heats up, add the mustard seeds and black gram. When the mustard seeds have burst, add the curry leaves.

2. Add the groundnuts and fry for a minute or two. Keep the flame in medium and fry for one more minute.

3. Add the turmeric powder and mix well.

4. Remove the pan from the fire.

5. Take the rice in a bowl and add the contents of the pan into it.

6. Cut the lime into half and squeeze its juice into the bowl. (Use a ripe lime so that the rice doesn’t taste sour.)

7. Add salt and mix well.

8. Taste the rice. If it is sour, add some more salt.

Have lime rice with crunchy potato chips!