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For the A-Z Tamil cuisine recipe marathon, for the alphabet L, again I couldn’t get any dish except lavangam/ clove. And I had no idea what to make with that as it is a spice and used minimally in dishes. So I went to use an English word Lemon. As I have previously mentioned in my post, sevai is made with rice. It can be either home made or store bought. Store bought sevai is so easy to use. Just boil it along with water and drain when done. Use it in any recipe. This recipe is one such recipe and is my daughter’s favourite. But I didn’t use store bought sevai. I made it at home and that too with cholam / jowar. How nice it can get. For the recipe of this sevai / idiyappam, you need to wait for some days. But for now, I will give you the method of doing the lemon sevai.
I noted down a couple of recipes from the cook book supplements I saved and all those turned disastrous. This sevai is one such recipe. But still I manged to get it right using another technique. Let us discuss about this in my sevai post. But after doing so many attempts, I was left with a huge quantity of sevai. I served it along with coconut milk in the morning. The left over transformed into this lemon sevai for lunch. When I served it along with appalam, my daughter was so happy. She wanted me to do it again, but I haven”t got a chance to remake it. This sevai is made with parboiled cholam/ jowar. And it tasted awesome. You will never miss out on rice once you start incorporating millets into your diet.
Ingredients:
Cooked Sevai ( homemade/ store bought) – 3 cups
Gingelly oil – 3 tbs
Peanuts – 3 tbs
Channa Dhal -2 tbs
Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
Asafoetida – 1/4 tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves- 2 sprigs
Lemon Juice – 3-4 tbs
Salt – to taste
Coriander Leaves – for garnish
Procedure:
Cook the sevai according to packet instructions or use home made idiyappam// sevai.
Heat oil in a pan and add channa dhal and peanuts.
Fry on medium flame until they are golden.
Add in mustard. When it crackles, add asafoetida, turmeric and curry leaves.
Mix salt with lemon juice and add it to the pan.
It will sizzle.
When the sizzling stops, add the sevai.
Remove from flame and mix it gently without breaking the sevai.
Add coriander leaves and mix well.
Serve it with appalam and coconut chutney.
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Lemon Sevai Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Cooked Sevai - 3 cups homemade/ store bought
- Gingelly oil - 3 tbs
- Peanuts - 3 tbs
- Channa Dhal -2 tbs
- Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
- Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Curry Leaves- 2 sprigs
- Lemon Juice - 3-4 tbs
- Salt - to taste
- Coriander Leaves - for garnish
Instructions
Procedure
- Cook the sevai according to packet instructions or use home made idiyappam// sevai.
- Heat oil in a pan and add channa dhal and peanuts.
- Fry on medium flame until they are golden.
- Add in mustard. When it crackles, add asafoetida, turmeric and curry leaves.
- Mix salt with lemon juice and add it to the pan.
- It will sizzle.
- When the sizzling stops, add the sevai.
- Remove from flame and mix it gently without breaking the sevai.
- Add coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve it with appalam and coconut chutney.
Its breakfast time and I am lazy to make something for myself…truly this is one of the best Lemon Seviya one can gorge on..wonderful.
Using homemade Jowar sevai for the dish is an amazing idea. Love lemon sevai.
Sevai made with jowar sounds so healthy & nutritious. Lemon sevai is such a simple and yummy dish.
Lemon flavored sevai looks inviting .I would love to try them soon.
Jowar sevai sounds interesting and it is good to see how you are incorporating so many grains into your diet. Lemon sevai looks delicious!
Omg, i dont mind having this lipsmacking lemon sevai rite now for my dinner, too tempting.
Delete the previous message. It was typo. I meant to say that you converted all the rice dishes into millet ones. Hats off to you. This version sevai is healthier and nutritious.
When ever we prepare sevai, lemon sevai will be there for sure. So yummm
You made the lemon sevai so healthy with the homemade jowar sevai..Keep rocking with your millet recipes.
Jowar sevai with lemon. That is one interesting combination. Meanwhile I am craving for the appalam by the side!!
That is an absolutely nutritious breakfast.
beautiful…i make lemon rice but never tried with sevai
Jowar sevai is super healthy and love the tangy lemon version. One of my favorite 🙂
this is my fav !! I love how u have made it with Jowar flour .. am yet to experiement making jowari sevai….
I made this for dinner. Loved it but next time I would add green chilliest for added flavour
bright lemony flavor make this a delicious side dish – I hve been planning to make this and yours looks so inviting
Think you turned in to millet side totally:) very interesting and healthy recipe…
lemon sevai looks so inviting. good choice for ‘L’