Simple Way to Make Homemade Instant Pot Lemon Rice

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, instant pot lemon rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Instant Pot Lemon Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Instant Pot Lemon Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook instant pot lemon rice using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:

1. Take 1 1/2 cups unsoaked Basmati rice
2. Get 2 cups water
3. Take salt as per taste
4. Get 1 bay leaf
5. Make ready 2 lemon juice lemons
6. Take 1 tsp turmeric
7. Prepare 1 stem curry leaves
8. Prepare 1/4 cup green peas cooked
9. Get 3-4 shallots
10. Prepare 2 slit green chilly
11. Get 1 tbsp mustard seeds
12. Prepare 2 tsps ghee(clarified butter) / oil
13. Make ready 1 tbsp peanuts roasted (optional)

Steps to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:

1. Keep the Instant Pot on saute mode and once hot,add some ghee or oil.
2. Pop the mustard seeds and add bay leaf, curry leaves,green chilies and shallots.
3. Add salt,turmeric powder,peanuts and saute well until shallots turn golden.
4. Pour the lemon juice into this and saute well.
5. Now add the washed and drained rice into the inner pot.
6. Mix well all the ingredients until well combined.
7. Add 2 cups water and check the salt. Now set the 'pressure cook' mode to 4 mins.
8. Once done,open the lid using Quick Release and transfer the rice to a colander to cool.(to prevent sticking of rice)
9. Serve hot  with pickle and salad of your choice.
10. Tip# For cooking perfect Basmati rice in Instant Pot,the rice to water ratio is: Unsoaked Basmati - 1:1.25 ratio & Soaked Basmati Rice 1:1 ratio

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