Lemon Sevai

By Mullai, on March 5th, 2011 6:22 pm

Description:

Instant rice hoppers or sevai can be a quick fix meal for anytime. It can be prepared in a jiffy with variety flavour options like coconut, lemon, curd, tomato…and the list goes on. Here is the recipe for lemon flavored sevai. Usually served as breakfast or for a light evening tiffin. Suits well for any time of the day , perfect for lunch box too.

Ingredients
1/2 packet	Uncooked sevai
3 tsp	lemon juice
6 cups	water
3 nos	green chillies
1 tsp	ginger (minced)
1 pinch	turmeric
1 pinch	asafoetida
1/2 tsp	mustard
1/2 tsp	cumin
1/2 tsp	split black gram
1 tbsp	roasted peanuts
5 – 6 nos	curry leaves
3/4 tsp	salt (or to taste)
2 tsp	oil

Instruction:

Get a pack of rice sevai from your local Indian store. That was easy!!!

I followed the packet instruction for cooking, no big deal..

Here’s how I did it, just incase if you need that little extra help. Start boiling the water in sauce pan. Let it come to rolling boil and switch off.

Add about 1/2 packet which is roughly 2 cups of rice sevai.

Cover with a lid and set aside for 2 minutes and not more than that.

Now the sevai gets cooked and will look like this.

Drain all the water and reserve the cooked sevai in a colander.

Meanwhile get the juice from a fresh lemon and mix salt and turmeric in it. Heat oil in a small pan and splutter mustard, split black gram, cumin seeds , peanuts, green chillies and curry leaves. Fry these for few seconds and add it to the lemon juice. Now gently mix this with the sevai and serve.