Coconut Rice - 250 Calories[1 cup] | Thengai sadam-How to make-video & Stepwise pictures

Cuisine Style: Tamilnadu, India | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Pickle, all chips varieties | Type: Lunch or Dinner

Boil rice then let it cool. Grate coconut.Dry roast groundnut then peel off the skin.Heat coconut oil in a pan, add seasoning ingredients, ground nut and coconut saute for 2 min. Then add rice and salt mix well. Simple and quick authentic tamil nadu style coconut rice is ready

Ingredients

• Rice -2 cups [boiled]
• Coconut -1 cup [Grated]
• Dry red chilli - 1
• Green chilli - 2 [optional]
• Ginger- 1 inch[finely chopped]
• Curry leaves- 2 springs
• Cashew Nuts -¼ cup[optional]
• Ground Nuts[Peanuts, Nilakkadalai]-¼ cup
• Mustard seeds- 1 tbsp
• Urad dal - 1 tsp
• Bengal Gram-1 tbsp
• Black pepper - 7
• Asafetida - 1/4 tsp [optional]
• Coconut oil - 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation Method

• Boil the rice in less water, spread over the plate to cool.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seed & let it splutter.
• Then add Bengal gram, urad dal, dry red chilli, green chilli, roasted ground nuts, cashew nuts, ginger, asafetida and curry leaves one by one.
• Add grated coconut and salt mix well
• Add boiled rice and mix well.
• Sprinkle coconut oil mix well & cut off heat, serve hot.

How to make Simple Coconut rice video

Note

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

Tip

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

How this Coconut Rice recipe is Unique?

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

How to make Coconut Rice- Step by step procedure & pictures

Seasoning with mustard, urad dal & bengal gram

Add peppercorns[Black pepper] & ginger

Add peanuts, green chilli & asafoetida

Add Curry leaves

Add grated coconut

Add boiled rice

Add salt & coconut oil mix well

Coconut rice is ready to serve

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