Lemon Rice

South Indian Lemon Rice | 5 minute recipe | Comfort food | Quick lunch box recipe
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Recipe / food styling / photography by - Sunayana Gupta





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Lemon Rice is a staple diet in South India and a quick fix recipe too. A dash of lime juice makes everything better and this is absolutely true in this case.

This dish packed with the tickle of lime juice and punch of curry leaves, mustard seeds, dry red chilly is tangy, refreshing, mild spicy in taste and usually does not requires any accompaniments, but sometimes for a change you can team it with papad or pickle/ chutney of choice.

Since lemon rice is made with Steamed Rice, hence you do not need to spend time in soaking and cooking raw rice and grinding or roasting of masalas. This feature definitely makes it a 5 minute dish and can be conveniently packed in lunch boxes too. A suggestion - use Leftover Rice instead of freshly cooked one as this would give the perfect texture & fluffiness to your dish.



Kids love lemon rice with mango pickle and pomegranate raita. Sprinkle some Andhra Paruppu Podi on rice for a delicious twist of flavors. Pack in spill proof tiffins for school for a healthy snack.

For a light meal you can team lemon rice with potato raita or coriander raita along with khatte meethe aloo or Rajasthani mangodi kadhi.

Make travels more fun with homemade food instead of scoring restaurants and gorging over unhealthy dishes. You can pack a quick meal box with lemon rice, green chilly pickle, methi thepla and aloo chane ki ghugani.

Besides, you might want to refer some ‘Pasta Recipes’ too…..

Pesto pasta recipe

Garlic noodles with French beans

Baked tomato cheese pasta recipe

Indian masala pasta recipe




Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice is a famous South Indian recipe. Lemon rice or khatte chawal uses tickle of lime juice, curry leaves & chilly.

Preparation Time : 0
Cooking Time : 5 minutes

Category : Rice
Cuisine :
Servings : 2 servings

Author : Sunayana Gupta

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Recipe Ingredients

  • Steamed rice – 3 cups
  • Curry leaves – 10-12
  • Chana dal – 1 teaspoon
  • Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
  • Dry red chilly (Broken) – 1-2
  • Turmeric powder – 1 teaspoon
  • Red chilly powder – ½ teaspoon
  • Lime juice – 2 tablespoon or to taste
  • Green chilly (Slit) - 2
  • Salt – To taste
  • Oil – 1 tablespoon

How to make Lemon Rice

Lemon rice is really easy to make and as we proceed to the steps, you would notice that!

  1. To begin with heat oil in a pan and add curry leaves, dry red chilly and mustard seeds.
  2. Allow them to crackle and give out aroma.
  3. Now add turmeric powder, chana dal, green chilly and fry till dal becomes golden brown.
  4. Add in the steamed rice, salt, red chilly powder and give a gentle stir.
  5. Cook on medium heat for a minute.
  6. Finally add in the lime juice and mix.
  7. Remove from heat.
  8. Lemon rice is now ready. Wasn’t that quick???

Do not miss to refer our serving suggestions to get some more ideas on serving this dish.





  • Name
  • Lemon Rice
  • Sub name
  • South Indian Lemon Rice | 5 minute recipe | Comfort food | Quick lunch box recipe
  • Category
  • Rice
  • Cuisine
  • South Indian
  • Key ingredients
  • Cooked rice, lemon juice, mustard seeds
  • Cooking technique
  • Cooking on gas top
  • Technicality
  • Very easy
  • Taste
  • Lemony, tangy and mild spicy
  • Preparation time
  • 0
  • Cooking time
  • 5 minutes
  • Servings
  • 2
  • Equipment used
  • A pan
  • Steps
  • 0
  • Created date
  • 2018-01-12 17:07:24

About Sunayana Gupta

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Hi,

I am founder, recipe creater, blogger and food photographer for this website. Here we provide you with some lip smacking veg. and egg recipes that you can easily replicate in your kitchen and create a soulful platter for your family & friends following our serving suggestions. From some regional Indian cuisine to popular recipes from around the globe, our focus is to make cooking easy for you with simple to follow steps, staple ingredients and accessible cooking techniques.

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Happy cooking!