Lemon Rice and Awards

Lemon Rice is one of the most comforting one pot meal, I mostly make this for my hubby's lunchbox. This can be made quick when you are in a jiffy and whenever you have any trip this is really wonderful rice to carry since it doesn't need a lot of labour to make them and they stay fresh for a very long time. This can be made with any left over rice as well and the rice gets a wonderful makeover. I made it with leftover parboiled Rice. So Enjoy having this ezee Lemon Rice served with Raita/Lemon pickle or just as it is :)

Ingredients: -

1. Cooked Rice - 2 cups
2. Lemon Juice extracted from 2 or 3 fresh Lemon
3. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
4. Urad dal - 1 tsp
5. Chana dal -  1tbsp
6. Cashews - 1/4 cup
7. Peanut - 1/4 cup
8. Dry Red chilly - 2 broken into halves
9. Shallots chopped - 1/2 cup(or 1/2 onion finely chopped)
10. Green chilly - 3 slit into halves(optional, I prefer adding green chilly but I didn't use it here since I didn't have them)
11. Curry leaves a sprig 
12. Oil - 2 tbsp
13. Salt to taste

Preparation Method:-

• Heat up a wide pan, pour oil, add mustard seeds. When they start to crackle add urad dal, chana dal, cashews, peanut, dry red chillies and curry leaves and saute for a minute in medium heat till they start becoming light brown.
• Add the shallots and green chilies and saute till onion turn light brown. Add the lemon juice and salt, add boiled rice when the lemon juice starts to boil from edges. 
• Saute well till to mix everything and till the raw smell of lemon juices vanishes. Check for salt and adjust accordingly. Switch off the stove and move to a serving dish and garnish with coriander leaves if desired . Serve warm with Raita and pickle of your choice.

Sending this to Let's Cook # 11 ~ Rice event hosted by Radhika @ Tickling Palates and Cooking with Leftovers hosted by Veena @ Veg Junction

   

Now coming to awards, I have been honored with a couple of awards again with some of my wonderful blogger friends. Thanks a lot to one and all who passed this awards to me. I was confused whether to post some of those awards since I have already posted couple of them before, but then I decided to post it as I wanted to pass it over to few of my new blogger buddies. So here goes the list of awards and friends please grab it and pass it over to your favorite blogger friends :)

1. I was honored with 'Liebster' award again by Faseela at Good Food Ends with Good Talk and Ann at Anzzcafe . They both are extra talented people who own a wonderful space with lot of great recipes, please visit their space and encourage them with your valuable comments. Thanks a lot Faseela and Ann once again for this cute award. 

'Liebster' means favourite or dearest in German. Rules for accepting the award: 
- Thank the person who gave the award and link back to their blog.
- Copy and paste the award to your blog.
- Reveal the 5 blogs you have chosen to award and let them know by commenting on their blog.
- Hope they pass it forward by accepting and awarding it to bloggers they would like to honour

I would like to share this award with my blogger friends, I really wanted to pass it over to many more but since I am suppose to pass it over to five of them I felt hard to choose five here.

1.Pushpa of Taste as you Cook 
2. Anita of Recipe with Pictures
3. Nisha at Nisha's Kitchen
4. Sangeeta at Sangeeta's Kitchen
5.Shilpa Kiran of Cook With Fun

I'm extremely happy to receive this 'Fabulous Award' from Teena of Teenz' Yummy Delight. She posses a  wonderful blog with very innovative and fabulous recipes. Check out her space and discover some of her wonderful recipes as well and leave your valuable comments as well.

Let me pass it over to the following wonderful blogger friends.

• Priya Soshy at These are a few of my favorite things
• Faseela at Good Food Ends with Good Talk
• Uma at My Kitchen Experiments
• Sidra Ajmad at My Passion For Cooking
• Sangeetha at Spicy Treats
• Ganga Sreekanth at My Favorite Foods
• Sravani at Srav's Culinary Concepts
• Radhika at Tickling Palates
• Anzz at Anzzcafe
• Puja at US Masala
• Suja at Kitchen Corner - Try It

I was once again honored with the following wonderful awards and I'm really grateful to Nalini at Nalini's Kitchen for passing on these awards to me. Thanks once again dear Nalini for this award, she owns a fabulous blog with great pictures and step wise instructions. I admire her for her passion towards cooking, friends please visit her space and explore her culinary talent. 

             

Now Let me pass it on to these blogger friends.

• Lekshmi Manjush of Lekshmi's Adukkala
• Christy Gerald at My Kitchen Flavors - Bon Appetit!
• Ash at Indulge-Ash Corner
• Kavi at Edible Entertainment
• Sobha Shyam at Good Food
• Shanthi at Shanthi Krishnakumar's Cook Book
• Padhu at Padhuskitchen
• Kaveri at Palakkad Chamayal
• Ramya at Ramya's Recipe
• Santosh Bangar at Santosh's Kitchen

Julie Christmas Delicacy Event was a great success with almost 243 entries for the event and I'm really happy to be a part of it by sending in few of my entries. I'm extremely happy for her success and wish her many more success for her future. Julie is a really talented lady who own's her wonderful blog 'Erivum Puiyum' with great innovative ideas and recipe. So friends why wait check out her blog as well and do not forget to leave  your valuable comments at her space as well. 

This is my Proud Participant Award and Thank You Note from Julie @ Erivum Puliyum