Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, instant pot lemon rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Instant Pot Lemon Rice is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Instant Pot Lemon Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook instant pot lemon rice using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:
- Get 1 1/2 cups unsoaked Basmati rice
- Get 2 cups water
- Prepare salt as per taste
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 2 lemon juice lemons
- Prepare 1 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 1 stem curry leaves
- Prepare 1/4 cup green peas cooked
- Make ready 3-4 shallots
- Get 2 slit green chilly
- Prepare 1 tbsp mustard seeds
- Get 2 tsps ghee(clarified butter) / oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp peanuts roasted (optional)
Aromatic Basmati Rice flavored with lemon juice, mustard seeds, ginger and topped with roasted peanuts. It has just the right amount of tang from the lemon juice, but doesn't overwhelm, and the consistency was creamy, similar to a risotto. This tangy and spicy lemon rice is is a popular south Indian dish. It makes for a perfect side or or a light meal.
Steps to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:
- Keep the Instant Pot on saute mode and once hot,add some ghee or oil.
- Pop the mustard seeds and add bay leaf, curry leaves,green chilies and shallots.
- Add salt,turmeric powder,peanuts and saute well until shallots turn golden.
- Pour the lemon juice into this and saute well.
- Now add the washed and drained rice into the inner pot.
- Mix well all the ingredients until well combined.
- Add 2 cups water and check the salt. Now set the 'pressure cook' mode to 4 mins.
- Once done,open the lid using Quick Release and transfer the rice to a colander to cool.(to prevent sticking of rice)
- Serve hot with pickle and salad of your choice.
- Tip# For cooking perfect Basmati rice in Instant Pot,the rice to water ratio is: Unsoaked Basmati - 1:1.25 ratio & Soaked Basmati Rice 1:1 ratio
Lemon juice and zest make this rice both tart and bright! Adding a serrano pepper (or two if you're like my husband) gives it some heat and the dal and peanuts. Rinse the rice in a colander until the water runs clear. Instant Pot Lemon Rice practically cooks itself and comes out of the pot perfectly delicious. Making rice in an Instant Pot vs. stove top is much simpler because you don't have to watch or worry about the rice.
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