Coconut Rice | Coconut Rice Recipe | South Indian Cooking
Coconut Rice is a flavoursome, easy to make rice dish from South India. The goodness of coconut along with taste of cumin and curry leaves blend well to give a tasty and easy to make dish. It can be eaten as it is or served with a few papad and fryums.
A no onion garlic recipe, coconut rice is ideal for festive days. It is simple yet flavoursome. I often make it during holidays as it is loved at home. It is ideal to serve for lunch or dinner. A good thing, you can make use of the left over rice too.
It does not need any accompaniments but I usually make some fryums and papads to pair them together. Moreover, my family members love to top it with a few pieces of these fryums.
The ingredients that goes into the making of Coconut Rice are:
Rice: Well cooked rice, that is neither too smudgy or soft. You can use the regular sona masuri rice here.
Coconut: Use fresh grated coconut to make this dish.
Curry leaves : Curry leaves give a good aroma to it.
Cashew pieces : They give flavour to the dish. Be sure to roast them well, you need a golden tinged one.
Groundnuts: Not a necessity, but they taste good in most South Indian dishes.
Asafoetida: It is one of the essentials of the South Indian cooking.
Coconut Rice
About the event:
Sending this to Healthy Wellthy Cuisine, the theme is “Satvik Treat”. The theme was suggested by Ruchi Shah, who is an expert cook. I loved her Raw Mango Thokku and want to try it. Other satvik recipes that you may like to try are
- Bhindi Kadhi by Preethi
- Pine Nuts Pasta by Shalu
- Doi Potol by Sujata
- Paneer Butter Masala by Poonam
- Moongdal Dosa by Ruchi
Recipe of Coconut Rice:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon bengal gram
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
- 2 tablespoon groundnut
- 8 cashew
- 4 red chilly
- a few sprigs of curry leaf
- 1/2 cup coconut
- salt to taste
Method:
- Wash the rice and cook it in pressure cooker, adjust the water quantity accordingly. Once the pressure releases, keep it aside.
- Take oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, as it splutters, put bengal gram, urad dal, groundnuts. Saute for a while. Put cashew pieces and red chilly into it. Throw in the curry leaves, the seasoning is ready. Keep it aside.
- Put rice, salt and coconut to it. Mix it.
- Coconut rice is ready to serve.
Take a tip:
- Grated coconut may be added in the seasoning. I do not do it, I prefer putting it over and mixing.
- A few green chilly and ginger may be added in the seasoning.
Coconut Rice
Ingredients
Method
- Wash the rice and cook it in pressure cooker, adjust the water quantity accordingly. Once the pressure releases, keep it aside.
- Take oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, as it splutters, put bengal gram, urad dal, groundnuts. Saute for a while. Put cashew pieces and red chilly into it. Throw in the curry leaves, the seasoning is ready. Keep it aside.
- Put rice, salt and coconut to it. Mix it.
- Coconut rice is ready to serve.
Notes
A few green chilly and ginger may be added in the seasoning.
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Coconut Rice
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