The Day Amma Lost Me and Found Me Over Lemon Rice 💛
Lemon rice is probably my second favorite rice dish. Or maybe third. Honestly, tamarind rice comfortably sits at number one, and then lemon rice and mango rice keep fighting among themselves for the next position. Mango rice would probably win if taste alone was the deciding factor, but then mango rice comes with the responsibility of grating mangoes and doing a little more work. So on most days, lemon rice happily takes the crown. Mango rice deserves a post of its own because that one belongs more to my mother-in-law than to my childhood. At my parents' place, it was almost always tamarind rice or lemon rice. Mango rice wasn't a regular thing. At my in-laws' place, however, my mother-in-law makes it during one of the festivals, and that memory deserves its own little corner here. But today is about lemon rice, and whenever I think about lemon rice, my mind immediately travels to Medak. Back then, Medak was still a part of Andhra Pradesh. Telangana had not yet been formed...