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Lemon Rice Microwave
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Lemon Rice Microwave, How to Make Lemon Rice Recipe, Lemon Pulihora
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Soaking
30 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 
Lemon Rice microwave is one of the simple recipes made from steamed rice.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Andhra, Indian
Keyword: How to Make Lemon Rice Recipe, Lemon Pulihora, Lemon Rice Microwave
Servings: 4
Calories: 654 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
Ingredients for Lemon Pulihora:
  • Basmati rice – 1 ½ cups.
  • Lemon juice – 3 tbsp.
  • Oil/ ghee – 2 tbsp.
  • Hing powder – ¼ tbsp.
  • Dry chilies – 2 no.
  • Black gram – 1 tbsp.
  • Bengal gram dal – 2 tbsp.
  • Fenugreek – ½ tbsp.
  • Groundnuts – ½ cup.
  • Mustard – 1 tbsp.
  • Curry leaves – 15 no.
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ tbsp.
  • Salt – As per your taste
Instructions
How to Make Lemon Rice Microwave:
  1. Wash rice and soak rice in 3 cups water for half an hour
  2. Take microwave safe bowl and add 3 cups water and above soaked rice to it.
  3. Adjust temperature to high and cook for 14 minutes with a lid covered over it.
Tip: Use perforated lid so that water doesn’t boil and come out of the bowl.
  1. Cook again for 5 minutes at normal temperature.
  2. Shift cooked rice to a plate and cool it so that rice grains don’t stick to each other.
  3. Take another safe bowl and add ghee, hing (asafoetida), dry red chilly, black gram, bengal gram and fenugreek seeds, mix all together.
  4. At high temperature, cook for 2 minutes without the lid until they turn their color.
  5. Add groundnut, mustard, curry leaves and turmeric powder, cook for a minute without the lid at high temperature.
  6. Mix all ingredients with cooled rice along with salt and lemon juice.
  7. Before serving, cook lemon rice microwave at medium temperature for 2 minutes.