Cocunut Rice
Ingredients:
- Coconut – one (to extract coconut milk) or use a tin of coconut milk if available.
- Kasuri methi – 1 tbsp
- Cloves – 1 tbsp
- Cinnamon sticks – three small
- Bay leaves – 2
- Shajeera – ½ tbsp
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
- Oil – 3 tbsp
- Onions(sliced long) – one big
- Green chillies (cut,longly) – 6
- Cashew nuts – few
- Rice – 2 cups
- Water – 4 cups
- Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp
- Cilantro leaves – few (chopped)
- Mint leaves – few (chopped)
- Cashew nuts – poppy seeds paste – 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
Before going to start, Lets see how to prepare Coconut milk and Cashew nut – Poppy seeds paste which are important in this recipe.
How to extract coconut milk from coconut:
- Break the coconut into two equal halves.
- Grated Coconut is prepare from the two pieces.
- Boil water in a container and remove flame, transfer grated coconut into boiled water and mix well, leave for 5 sec.
- Filter the coconut pulp from the water.
- Coconut milk extract is used in the following recipe.
*TIP: Coconut pulp can be taken with sugar or we can make chutney with it.
How to make Cashew nut – Poppy seeds Paste:
- Soak the cashews in warm milk for half an hour and soak the poppy seeds in warm water for an hour.
- Blend the soaked cashews and poppy seeds together to make a thick paste.
- Place the excess paste in a air tight container and store it in a refrigerator. you can use this paste in any curries.
How to cook coconut rice
- Heat oil in a cooking pan and roast Cashew nuts, Cloves, Cinnamon, Bay leaves, Shajeera, Kasuri Methi in oil.
- Add onions, green chillies to it and fried till the onions turn golden brown colour.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fried in order that paste do not stick to the walls .
- Wash the rice and keep aside.
- Pour water into the pan and add salt into it.
- Then add salt, coconut milk and cashew nut – poppy seeds paste, cilantro, Mint leaves to it.
- Mix well and let it boil for few minutes till you can see can the bubbles and fumes coming out from the water.
- Add the ghee. Mix the water with a stick and add washed rice to it and cook.
- Place the lid on the pan and cook well, occasional stirring is necessary until the rice has to be cooked.
- Follow the same procedure of cooking the steamed rice to cook this rice.
Chicken Gravy, stuffed brinjal curry and Raitha is the best combination with this rice.
https://manjeera.org/2011/05/gravy-chicken-curry/ Please follow the link for Gravy Chicken Recipe.
https://manjeera.org/2013/07/gutti-vankaya-kurastuffed-brinjal-curry/ Please follow the link for stuffed brinjal curry.
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