Lemon Poha | Lemon Avalakki | Breakfast Recipe

Lemon Poha, quick and easy vegan breakfast with rice flakes, deliciously tempered with crunchy elements and seasoned with fresh lemon juice and salt. It takes just 15 minutes to make this colorful and zesty lemony poha.

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine South-Indian

Keyword Easy poha recipe, How to make easy poha for breakfast, Poha for breakfast, Quick and easy recipe with poha, Vegan Poha recipe

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 15

Servings people

Calories 162kcal

Ingredients

1 cup thick poha/avalakki
juice of 1 lemon
½ teaspoon salt or to taste
2-3 tablespoon broken cashews
½ teaspoon freshly pounded coriander seeds
fresh coriander for garnish

Tempering

1 tablespoon sesame oil/gingely oil
½ teaspoon mustard seeds/kadugu
¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder
¼ teaspoon of hing/asafoetida
1 teaspoon chana dal/gram dal/Kadalai paruppu
3-4 nos red chilies round variety
a strand of curry leaf

Instructions

Take the poha in a colander and wash under running water for 30 seconds, it will become soft. Let it sit on the counter until use.
In a tava, heat oil given tempering, splutter mustard seeds, add hing, curry leaves and red chilies.
Once the curry leaves turn crisp, add chana dal, turmeric powder and broken cashew-nuts.
Once the dal turns golden brown, add the fluffypoha and turn off the stove.
Add lemon juice to this, mix, finally add salt, fluff it well and serve it hot garnished with fresh coriander leaves.

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