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Coconut Rice Recipe

Coconut Rice

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Cuisine Style: Tamilnadu, Cooking Time: 45 minutes, To Serve: 4, Take with: any side dish, Type: Lunch or Dinner

Ingredients

  • Rice -2 cups
  • Water- 4 cups
  • Grated Coconut-1 cups
  • Coconut Milk- 2 cups
  • Mustard seeds- 2 tsp
  • Urad dal - 1 tsp
  • Bengal Gram-1 tbsp
  • Green chillies-3 slit
  • Ginger- 1 inch smashed
  • Cashew Nuts-1/4 cup
  • Ground Nuts--1/4 cup
  • urry leaves-few
  • Oil-1 Tbsp
  • salt- 1 tsp

Preparation

  • Boil the rice in less water, spread over the plate to cool.
  • Dry roast pepper, grind and keep it aside.
  • Heat pan, pour oil and put mustard seed and let it splutter.
  • Then add Bengal gram, urad dall, green chillis, turumeric powder, roasted ground nuts ginger and curry leaves one by one.
  • Fry untill raw the smell goes off.
  • Now mix the lemon juice, stir all together for 2 minutes.
  • Add salt.
  • Mix the cooked rice and mix well.
  • Sprinkle pepper powder and Gingely oil

Note

  • Without coconut milk, cashew and ground nuts this recipe can be prepared.

Tip

  • Add 2 to 3 drops of lemon to get different flavour.

How this Coconut Rice recipe is Unique?

  • Boiling the rice with coconut brings the rich aroma of coconut.

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