Recipe: Tasty Lemon Sevai

Recipe: Tasty Lemon Sevai Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Lemon Sevai. Lemon sevai - vegan and gluten-free lemon flavored rice vermicelli recipe with instant store-bought sevai mix, and that's what I am going to share today. This recipe is perfect for those days when the time is pressing or when you want a light yet delicious meal. You can prepare this sevai for any meal, be it breakfast, lunch, evening tiffin or dinner even.

If you have some sevai (or idiyappam) lying around, definitely cook up some lemon sevai for breakfast and enjoy!

The Homemade Lemon Sevai Recipe, is a traditional south indian recipe that is made from from freshly ground rice using a traditional sevai maker.  Sevai also known as savory rice noodles is a tiffin speciality in Tamil Brahmin households.

There are many variations to this classic breakfast sevai: lemon sevai, coconut sevai, ell sevai, vella sevai, curd sevai and puli sevai.

You can cook Lemon Sevai using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lemon Sevai

1. It’s of rice sevai.

2. It’s of Juice of big lemon.

3. It’s of mustard seeds.

4. You need of urad dal.

5. You need of chana dal.

6. It’s of turmeric.

7. You need of Salt.

8. Prepare of curry leaves.

9. You need of oil.

10. You need of green chillies slit (adjust).

Lemon Sevai is a traditional evening tiffin in Tamilnadu.

In marriages, for evening snack, Lemon Sevai is one of the common evening snack.

Lemon sevai is much similar to lemon rice.

The tempering and adding lemon juice is same as Lemon rice.

Lemon Sevai instructions

1. Boil 1 Lt water with 1 TSP salt. Switch off.

2. Add Sevai immediately, cover and soak for 5 minutes. Sevai will get cooked. It should not be squishy.

3. Drain excess water and rest for 20 minutes.

4. Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.

5. Add Dals and roast until golden brown.

6. Add turmeric, green chillies and curry leaves. Stir for few seconds and switch off. Let it cool for 5 minutes.

7. Add lemon juice and salt. Mix well.

8. Add Sevai and using hands gently mix until Sevai is well coated with the seasoning. Serve with coconut chutney.

Instead of cooked rice we are going to use cooked rice noodles.

Lemon Sevai Preparation: Soak the chana dal this is optional I would like to do because it tastes very good.

Heat oil in a kadai and temper it with dried red chili, mustard seed, urad dal, Hing and curry leaves.

We usually make plain savoury sevai or this lemon sevai.

Though I prefer the sweet version I can have this when accompanied with the sweet version.