Instant Pot Lemon Rice
Instant Pot Lemon Rice

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, instant pot lemon rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Instant Pot Lemon Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Instant Pot Lemon Rice is something which I have loved my whole life.

Instant Pot Lemon Rice—Greek-inspired lemon rice is perfect to serve as a side dish or with chicken. It's flavor is subtle, but delicious. I went to the most delicious Greek place the other day for dinner.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have instant pot lemon rice using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:
  1. Make ready 1 1/2 cups unsoaked Basmati rice
  2. Make ready 2 cups water
  3. Take salt as per taste
  4. Take 1 bay leaf
  5. Take 2 lemon juice lemons
  6. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
  7. Prepare 1 stem curry leaves
  8. Get 1/4 cup green peas cooked
  9. Take 3-4 shallots
  10. Prepare 2 slit green chilly
  11. Get 1 tbsp mustard seeds
  12. Make ready 2 tsps ghee(clarified butter) / oil
  13. Make ready 1 tbsp peanuts roasted (optional)

It makes for a perfect side or or a light meal. 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. Instant Pot Lemon Rice, is bursting with lemony flavors and is incredible versatile and easy to make.

Steps to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:
  1. Keep the Instant Pot on saute mode and once hot,add some ghee or oil.
  2. Pop the mustard seeds and add bay leaf, curry leaves,green chilies and shallots.
  3. Add salt,turmeric powder,peanuts and saute well until shallots turn golden.
  4. Pour the lemon juice into this and saute well.
  5. Now add the washed and drained rice into the inner pot.
  6. Mix well all the ingredients until well combined.
  7. Add 2 cups water and check the salt. Now set the 'pressure cook' mode to 4 mins.
  8. Once done,open the lid using Quick Release and transfer the rice to a colander to cool.(to prevent sticking of rice)
  9. Serve hot  with pickle and salad of your choice.
  10. 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

Enjoy it as a side or make it you base to serve your favorite proteins. Stove top to and Rice Cooker recipe available. Fluffy grains of aromatic Basmati rice flavored with mustard seeds, curry leaves and fresh lemon juice. So, wait for a sale and snag one, you will not be sorry. Instant Pot Lemon Rice practically cooks itself and comes out of the pot perfectly delicious.

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