Chitranna/Lemon rice

Ingredients:

Rice(cooked) 2 bowl
Ground nut 1/2 cup
Onion 1 big(chopped long)
Tomato (optional)(chopped)
Green chilly 2-3(as per the spice)cut in 2-3 peaces(long lenght)
Gram dhal or Urad Dhal(both can be used) 2tsp
Curry leaves 7-8
turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Mustard seed 1tsp
oil 4tsp
salt to taste
sugar 1/2 tsp
lemon juice 2 tsp
coriander leaves (chopped for garnishing)
Grated coconut 1/2 cup(optional)

Method:

Heat the oil in a pan add ground nut and gram dhal fry till it turns to light brown,add green chilly fry for 2mins now add mustard curry leave and turmeric,saute for 2-3 mins,then add onion mix well when it turns golden brown add tomato(if required) when it becomes tender add sugar salt lemon juice coconut grated mix properly stir for 2-3 mins.

Now add rice to this and mix well turn of the heat after 5mins......and garnish with coriander leaves......the tasty lemon rice is ready to serve......

As like same,if you take a capsicum (diced) and fry in a pan adding 1tsp cooking oil and mix this capsicum to the above lemon rice,,which will become

Capsicum lemonRice