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Feb 19, 2012

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. 

42 comments:

  1. this looks great..I would definitely make this one!

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  2. Rice looks yummy and colorful Sangee.

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  3. Love the addition of carrots in this authentic one,Sangee..Looks totally yummy & I too have posted a rice recipe today,same pinch!!

    Erivum Puliyum

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  4. Wow!,Luv the addition of Carrot (previously U did add Onion) in Lemon Rice Dear.Tasty as well as healthy option.Fabulous idea!.

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  5. Carrot Lemon rice looks great :) Nicely presented...

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  6. wow! very colorful and I bet my kids will love this too!!

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  7. wow..looks just awesome.loved d combo.bl try this4 sure........

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  8. nice addition of carrots to lemon rice, my mom sometimes add but when we were kids we never love the addition of carrots but now as a mom i insist the addition of veggies to kids.:)
    Nice clicks too

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  9. Nice dish sangee & love the clicks.. they look fab :)

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  10. Wonderful clicks!!!!'lovely recipe

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  11. Very nice idea of adding carrots to lemon rice, looks delicious..

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  12. interesting combo....nice presentation and click!

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  13. Looks very tempting. Love the first image.

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  14. Delicious combo and appealing to eyes...

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  15. i love lemon rice and always prefer others (especially friends from south india to make it for me as I never get the texture i like). Now yours looks so pretty and inviting and excellent idea of adding carrot to it , makes it colorful

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  16. Looks colorful ! Instead of boiling Lemon extract to the garnish item. Boil the Lemon extract with Turmeric powder separately which will keep the crunchiness of Cashew, G.Nut & added Dhalls.

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  17. awesome n tempting luking rice....attractive color too...

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  18. awesome n tempting rice...attractive color too

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  19. Sangee ur clicks r making me go mad .. awesome clicks n wonderful my fav variety rices..

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  20. I usually prepare lemmon rice but never tried it with Carrot. will Cook from my kitchen soon :)

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  21. I made this for my hubby's lunch box. i never add carrot. will try soon..

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  22. Wow sangee .... Iv never tried this combination before... Looks lovely! Thanks!

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  23. This is my daughter's favorite lunch box item...I too add carrots to the lemon rice...nice clicks

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  24. these surely are flavorful...love those crunchy nuts and ..ya u sure r rt..when you say grate the carrots..talking of children!!..i do that for my hubby:))

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  25. i like the touch of carrots in lemon rice.. looks sema perfect :)

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  26. that looks sooo perfect...lovely clicks too...

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  27. Was just looking at your home page and every one of those rice dishes had me drooling sangee!

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  28. What pretty colors and the clicks are just amazingly clear! I already love lemon rice and carrots would make it even much healthier now...perfect for my doll. :)

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  29. what a colourful rice..amazing clicks sangee!!

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  30. Flavourful and nice combination rice

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  31. The rice looks awesome...love the light yellow colour...

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  32. Thanks everyone for your lovely comment...come back soon to checkout more :)

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  33. Lovely clicks, delicious looking comfort food.

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  34. That's a neat twist..:)..we add coconut to our lemon rice, never thought of adding carrot..makes it so healthy..pictures are awesome!

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  35. Nice combo. ove the vibrant colour. I add Peas to lemon rice.

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  36. Nice and flavorful combo!

    http://sonykitchen.blogspot.com/

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