Lemon Poha is a flavorful stir fried dish made by sauteing poha with tempered herbs, spices and finally mixed with lemon juice. Lemon poha serves as a snack and as well as a meal for lunchbox and dinner. Learn to make lemon poha or lemon aval with step by step pictures
Lemon Aval / Lemon Poha has become my recent favorite especially when the tummy kicks in for the 5PM teatime snack. It is very quick to put together and you need not wait too long, flavorful and yummy upma ready in minutes, what else do you want?
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About Lemon Poha
Leamon Poha or Lemon Aval as we call in tamil is a simple stir fried dish made with poha. I always love lemon flavor for its tanginess like lemon rice, lemon sevai etc and now this has been added to the list too. I have already posted a simple aval upma yrs ago, this is a variation of the usual aval upma.
You can use any variety of poha as you wish but I prefer the thick variety as it is less sticky, though tastewise not much of difference. I love the thin variety for aval urundai and aval payasam. When I was puzzled of what to pack last week, this lemon poha came to my rescue and yes I agree posting here was in my mind too.
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Lemon Poha Ingredients
- Poha – Use thick or thin poha soak in water accordingly.
- Lemon – Use lemon juice at the final stage.
- Tempering – A simple tempering is made using oil, mustard seeds,. urad dal, chana dal. turmeric powder, hing, curry leaves and green chilies.
How to make Lemon Poha Step by Step
1.Squeeze juice from a small lemon, set aside. Add water to poha just till immersing level, leave it soaked for 3-5 minutes(if its thick variety). Add required salt.
2.Meanwhile soak chana dal for 10 minutes. Heat oil in a pan – add the items under ‘to temper’ and saute till golden brown and the dals turn crisp.
3.Then add soaked poha, give a stir until the seasoning is mixed evenly. Check for salt and adjust accordingly. Switch off and add the lemon juice.
Serve hot/warm!
Expert Tips
- While tempering you can add peanuts too.
- Make sure you switch off and then add lemon juice else there are chances for the upma to become bitter.
- Instead of green chilies, you can add red chilies too.
- If you are using the thin variety of poha soak just for 2 minutes else it will become mushy.
- This upma is ideal for snack time especially for kids.
Serving and Storage
Lemon Poha tastes great on its own, you can serve it with sev and curd too. This keeps well in fridge for 2 days.
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Lemon Poha Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup poha / aval – I used thick poha variety
- 1 small lemon
- salt to taste
To Temper:
- 2 teaspoon oil
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1 teaspoon chana dal
- 1/2 teaspoon urad dal
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 generous pinch hing
- 1 green chilies chopped finely
- few curry leaves
Instructions
- Squeeze juice from a small lemon, set aside. Add water to poha just till immersing level, leave it soaked for 3-5 minutes(if its thick variety). Add required salt.
- Meanwhile soak chana dal for 10 minutes. Heat oil in a pan – add the items under ‘to temper’ and saute till golden brown and the dals turn crisp.
- Then add soaked poha, give a stir until the seasoning is mixed evenly. Check for salt and adjust accordingly. Switch off and add the lemon juice.
- Serve hot/warm!
Notes
- While tempering you can add peanuts too.
- Make sure you switch off and then add lemon juice else there are chances for the upma to become bitter.
- Instead of green chilies, you can add red chilies too.
- If you are using the thin variety of poha soak just for 2 minutes else it will become mushy.
- This upma is ideal for snack time especially for kids.
Veena Theagarajan
looks yummy and perfect breakfast
priya satheesh
Flavorful upma… Love this!!
Bharathy
First a bear hug for you 🙂 I always look out for a quick fix snack for my husband who rushes in for tea time and rushes out.. this will be a perfect one for him!bookmarking 🙂
Kadhyaa
simple yet very yummy
Uma Ramanujam
Like the grainy texture of the poha.would also like to add grated coconut to it.
SohNi
I just love poha and it's a comfort food for me when I do not want to do serious cooking.
Dipti Joshi
In Maharashtra we use thick variety only to prepare this dish. 'Batata Pohe' is my favorite breakfast.
Suja Manoj
Looks simply delicious,yum
Sireesha Puppala
Simple n delicious brkfat
tinku shaji
I love poha.. nice recipe
Shobha Kamath
I love this breakfast dish ! I also do it the Maharashtrian way as well as the "Konkani" way i.e without the dals and the turmeric powder and with coconut gratings for garnish.
ShravsCookBookBlog
I prepare this twice a week for breakfast…adding lemon juice makes it so yummy….
shailajag
Hi Sharmi, iam big fan of your site, I never cook but after seeing ur site I got interest in cooking.. thank you so much, your presentation is simply supereb.. now I can say I can cook :0)
Sona S
simple and delicious poha.. nice clicks..
Sangee
Can u clear one doubt for me? You soaked channa dal for preparing rava idli and this lemon poha also what is the purpose of soaking like that.
DivyaGCP
Love this quick and easy to make aval, especially for the lemon flavor.. Simple and delicious..
Pavithra
Hi Sharmi,
Tried this. Came out Great! Thanks!
abinaya
Hi sharmi,
Tried out today and came out So well.