Thursday, September 7, 2017

Black Horsegram Lemon Rice/Kollu Lemon Rice

Have you ever noticed that horsegram do exists as black horsegram, usually we get brownish horsegrams from Indian groceries. But during my last trip to India, i saw black horsegrams in a departmental store, obviously i picked them immediately. As much as like usual horsegrams, these black beauties are extremely nutritious and healthy as well. Horsegram offers good amount of proteins and their medicinal properties have long history in India. Various parts of Horsegram plants are used in Ayurvedic treatments of Asthama, kidney stones, jaundice and urinary disorders.Horsegrams have high amount of iron and its helps in reducing iron deficiencies in wormen. Drinking horsegram water or horsegram soups is quite healthy especially for women. This protein rich,low fat horsegram is very much included in weight loss diet. Do you know boiled sprouted horsegram as morning breakfast is healthy and helps a lot in reduce weight.

Karuppu Kollu Lemon Rice, Horsegram Lemon rice

Horse gram is one of the healthiest food to include quite often in one's diet. Adding horsegram in any dish will be nutritious with many health benefits.  If you have cooked leftover horsegram after using their cooked water for making Rasam aka Indian soup, then this ultimate dish takes hardly less than half an hour to get ready.Serve it along with fried papads or boiled eggs, this lemon rice will definitely fills everyone's hungry tummy easily. If you want to feed your loved ones with Horsegram, dont hesitate a second to check this delicious tangy rice. Needless to say that this protein rich rice goes to this month's blogging marathon as we are running with Protein rich dishes as theme. Hence this lipsmacking lemon rice will definitely please anyone's taste buds.

Black Horsegram Lemon Rice, Kollu Lemon Rice

1/4cup Fresh lemon juice
3cups Cooked rice
1/2cup Cooked black horsegram
Salt

For tempering:
1/4tp Mustard seeds
1/4tsp Urad dal
1/4tsp Channa dal
tbsp Ginger pieces (minced finely)
2nos Green chillies (slit opened)
3nos Dry red chillies
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
Few Curry leaves
3tbsp Oil
1/2tsp Turmeric powder

Mix the already cooked rice with lemon juice and salt, (add lemon juice as ur need).

Now heat the oil and add all the ingredients from the list one by one for tempering except turmeric powder to the hot oil and fry until everything turns brown.

Add finally the turmeric powder,cooked black horse grams and take care not to burn the turmeric powder.

Horsegram Lemon Rice

Add this tempered spices to the rice,toss everything well until the rice and black horsegrams gets well mixed.

Serve hot with spicy side dishes.
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16 comments:

rajani said... Reply To This Comment

Haven't seen the black horse gram before. Nice to see all the easy protein rich meals you have been posting!

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

What a fantastic twist to the lemon rice ! You taken the rice to a completely different level , making it Protein Rich .Amazing !

Gayathri Kumar said... Reply To This Comment

Didn't know that there are two types of horse gram available. Will check it when I go for shopping. This lemon rice looks so inviting and the addition of kollu makes it more interesting..

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

I have never used horse gram in lemon rice. Nice idea and wonderful protein packed meal.

Sharmila kingsly said... Reply To This Comment

Even i have seen only brown horse gram.. Kollu Lemon Rice is totally a yummy dish.. Awesome!!

Srividhya said... Reply To This Comment

It is a great idea to include horse gram in lemon rice.I love kollu and as you said I use the water for the rasam too.

Padmajha said... Reply To This Comment

I have not come across black horsegram. Must heck in the stores. USing it with lemon rice is an awesome idea!

Sowmya :) said... Reply To This Comment

Lemon and horsegram sound like an interesting combination. Never seen black ones before though. I didn't know about horesgram sprouts either. Thanks for that tip

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

Trust you to take lemon rice to the next level. Awesome!

Anlet Prince - Annslittlecorner said... Reply To This Comment

Great idea of adding horse gram into lemon rice. So eager to know how it tasted

Mayuri Patel said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious looking horse gram lemon rice. I've read so much about horse gram and its health benefits. I'll have to remember to pick up some from India during my next trip.

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

What a fantastic dish Priya. You do get so many new ingredient every time you travel right. This looks like such a comfort dish.

Nalini's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Never knew black horsegram exists,addition of horsegram makes the rice even more healthier and nice way to include horsegram in our diet.

Kalyani said... Reply To This Comment

my friend makes a kulith (horesegram) rice similar to masala bhath - using it with lemon rice is a good idea..

Preeti said... Reply To This Comment

Love the protein rich rice recipe with amazing flavor of lemon.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

I haven't seen black horsegram, have seen only brown ones. Need to check it out. Nice innovative recipe.