South Indian Lemon Rice with Peanuts and Curry Leaves
By Joe
Source: Serious Eats — Denise D'silva Sankhé, South Indian Lime Rice.
A south indian lime rice recipe for 3 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
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Method
- 1
Mix. Heat oil or ghee over a mid-sized flame till shimmering in a mid-sized skillet. Add chiles and cook, mixing, till fragrant, around 30 seconds. Add mustard seeds and carry on cooking, mixing, till seeds pop. In quick succession, tip in lentils, yellow gram, plus peanuts. Heat, mixing often, till the lentils turn light brown, around 3 minutes. Add curry leaves and mix till fragrant, around 30 seconds. Add turmeric powder, mix for a few seconds, next add lime juice. Add salt till it tastes right till it tastes right. Off-heat, add rice and fold lightly to keep rice intact till all ingredients are incorporated. Fold in sugar, if using. Offer hot using poppadom plus Indian pickles.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
Free sugars
1.5 g per serving
3 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 6 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Approximate: no weight for recipe poppadom, so it is not in the total. No nutrition labels are shown for this recipe until it is fixed.
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 469 kcal |
| Protein | 9.3 g |
| Carbohydrate | 78.4 g |
| of which sugars | 2.1 g |
| of which free sugars | 1.5 g |
| Fat | 12.9 g |
| of which saturates | 1.9 g |
| Fibre | 2.4 g |
| Salt | 0.02 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
2 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values
