Easiest Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Coconut rice recipe

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, coconut rice recipe. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Coconut rice recipe is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Coconut rice recipe is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook coconut rice recipe using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Coconut rice recipe:

1. Prepare 2 cups Cooked rice - heaped
2. Prepare 1 cup Fresh grated coconut -
3. Make ready For the seasoning
4. Make ready 1 tbsp Oil -
5. Make ready 1 tsp Mustard seeds –
6. Make ready 1/2 tbsp Chanadal/Bengal Gram/kadalai paruppu –   Urad dal –
7. Get 2 Red chillies –
8. Take 1 Green chillies slit
9. Take Curry leaves – few
10. Make ready 1 inch Ginger (finely chopped or slivered) – piece
11. Make ready 1 pinch Asafoetida/Hing –
12. Get 8-10 Cashew nuts -

Instructions to make Coconut rice recipe:

1. Cook rice in such a way that each grains are separate. Add a tsp of oil (any cooking oil)to the cooked rice and spread the rice on a plate to cool. You can use ordinary rice or basmati rice.
2. Grate coconut and keep all the ingredients needed for seasoning ready. Fresh coconut is recommended for this recipe.
3. Heat oil in a kadai/ pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds (optional) when it splutters, add chanadal, urad dal and red chillies. (add chanadal first as it will take time to get roasted, then add urad dal)
4. When dal changes colour slightly, add green chillies, slivered ginger, asafoetida, curry leaves and cashew nuts. Sauté until cashew nuts turn golden brown. (remove the red chillies when sauteing cashewnuts. Once the cashew nuts turn golden brown, add the fried red chillies back - this is to prevent the red chillies from getting burnt).
5. Add grated coconut and sauté for a few minutes. It is not necessary to fry the grated coconut until it turn brown. Add salt needed and mix well and switch off the heat.
6. Fluff cooked rice with a fork and add it to the prepared coconut mix. Mix the cooked rice well with the coconut. Serve with papads or chips or any gravy or kuzhambu of your choice.

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