Coconut Rice

Coconut Rice

Ingredients

Long grained Rice(Basmati preferable) - 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Cooking Oil - 3 tea spoons

Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup ( or dessicated coconut/dry coconut powder)

Mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon

Channa dhaal/Split yellow lentils - 1 tea spoon

Urad dhaal/Black gram deskinned (whole or split)- 1 tea spoon

Onion - 1/2 cup diced into fine pieces

Green chillies - 5 - slit into halves/length-wise

Red Chillies(Optional) - 2 - cut into small pieces

Curry leaves - As required
Salt - To taste

Procedure

1. Cook the Basmati Rice with 2 cups of water.Add 1 spoon of Oil while cooking so that the rice grains don't stick after cooking

2. Spread the cooked rice on a plate to cool down

3. Heat a wide frying Pan/wok and add 2 spoons of Cooking oil.

4.When the Oil is hot, add the channa dhaal and Urad Dhaal to it.When the Channa dhaal turns golden brown and the raw smell goes off, add the mustard seeds and curry leaves to the oil and let them splutter.

5.Add the broken red Chillies and split Green chillies(length-wise) to the Oil and sauté them

6.Add the Onion and saute well.

7.When the onion turns golden brown add coconut and sauté well till the coconut turns to a light brown color.

8.Now lower the stove flame or put the stove in low heat mode

9.Start adding the Rice and also add salt as per tast and keep mixing the rice with the previously cooked mixture gently till it is evenly spread across the rice.Cover the mixed rice with a lid and cook in low flame for 5 minutes.

Serve it a plate with some pickles /Papad/Fryums.

 A yummy,great tasting dish is ready ! Enjoy !