An easy lemon rice recipe to serve as a side dish. Giver your plain rice a burst of tang by making this lemony rice.

Jazz it up with caramelized onions, raisins, or toasted cashew to add more flavor or mix in your preferred herbs to a healthier tone.

There are so many ways to serve this lemon rice so make sure to bookmark this recipe.

Lemon rice side dishes.

• Sri Lankan dishes you can pair with lemon rice.
  • Devilled curries like devilled chicken, devilled prawns, or a spicy sausage stir fry
  • Try it with some seafood curries, creamy white fish curry, Sri Lankan prawn curry.
  • Try with some vegetarian curries deviled soya, creamy cashew curry,mushroom curry.

• Indian dishes,
  • Tandoori chicken, butter chicken, Chettinad chicken curry, chili chicken,
  • Teriyaki chicken, caramelized galic prawn stir fry,
  • Air fryer chicken quarters.
  • Sesame chicken

• Garnishes you can add to the rice.
  • Garnish with caramelised onions, toasted cashews and raisins to add more flavor.
  • You can also add chopped parsley, coriander
  • Add some diced fried crispy potatoes over the rice to add some crunch.

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Tips to make the best lemon rice.

• Use medium short grain or basmati rice to cook this lemon rice.
• To cook more rice, simply follow the 1:2:3 ratio(for every cup of rice, add two cups of rice and you will have 3 cups of cooked rice).
• Make sure not to overcook the rice.
• Balance the lemon flavor. make sure to taste, and add more lemon juice and zest as per your need but avoid adding too much of the juice as well.
• Replace water with chicken broth or vegetable broth, you can also add chicken or vegetable bouillon cube instead.
• For best results, remove the lemon rice from the stove, transfer it to a plate, let it cool for a few minutes before digging in.

Suggested tools/appliances to make lemon rice.

• A Citrus Zester to grate and zest lemon and other fruits.
• Lemon and Lime Squeezer helps to squeeze out both lemon, lime and other citrus fruits manually.
• Cooking pan or rice cooker– you can use a cooking pan to cook rice over a stove top or use a rice cooker to cook the lemon rice.
  

More rice recipes

• Easy chicken fried rice
• Beef fried rice
• Yellow rice
• ghee rice
• Saudi kabsa rice

• Storing– Use an airtight glass or plastic container. only refrigerate after the rice cools down completely. remove as much of the herb garnish as possible. refrigerate for upto 3 days.
• Freezing– avoid freezing.
• Reheat– remove rice from the fridge, leave it out for 10 minutes, heat over a stovetop with a teaspoon of water and low heat, make sure that the rice doesn’t stick to the pan as it warms.
  You can also microwave the rice for 3-5 minutes with a teaspoon of water.
  You might have to add a dash of lemon to bring back the tang.
• Stop food waste by cooking only as much as you need. any leftover rice can be repurposed to make fried rice.

RECIPE DIFFICULTY-EASY

How to make lemon rice

Please make sure to read the recipe instructions carefully to avoid mistakes.

Ingredients to make lemon rice.

The ingredients mentioned below use standard measuring cups and spoons.

A cup of washed medium-short grain rice
2 cups of water( if using chicken broth instead of chicken bouillon, substitute with 1 cup of chicken broth and 1 cup of water).
1 chicken bouillon(only if you are not substituting with chicken broth as mentioned above).
1 teaspoon of grated lemon zest(used while cooking and garnishing)
Salt to season
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
2 teaspoons of butter
1/4 cup of chopped parsley

Method

Wash and rinse the rice grain. Add the washed rice(1 cup)into a wide, cooking pan.

• If using water-add 2 cups of water.
• If using chicken broth– add 1 cup of chicken broth and 1 cup of water.
• If using chicken bouillon-simply add a chicken or vegetable bouillon to the water.

Add lemon juice( 2 tbsp), half of the lemon zest, salt to season.
Cook the rice as per instructions given on my recipe post on how to cook rice over a stovetop.

Once the rice is cooked until fluffy and all liquid has been absorbed, remove the rice from the stove.
Taste, add a touch of lemon juice if you need more of a sharp flavor.
While the lemon rice is still warm, add butter(2 tsp)and mix it into the rice.
Let the rice rest for 7-10 minutes.
Transfer to a platter, garnish with more lemon zest and your favorite herb.
Serve warm and enjoy the suggested side dishes mentioned above.

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