Recipe: Yummy Coconut Rice

Coconut Rice.

You can cook Coconut Rice using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Coconut Rice

1. It's 1/2 cup of rice.
2. It's 1 tbsp of chana daal (split bengal gram).
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of urad daal (split black gram).
4. Prepare of To taste, green chillies finely chopped.
5. Prepare of To taste, salt.
6. It's 1/4 tsp of tumeric powder.
7. It's 1/2 of onion, finely chopped.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ginger, finely minced.
9. Prepare 3 tbsps of fresh coconut, grated.
10. You need 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds.
12. You need 1 pinch of asafoetida.
13. Prepare 1 tbsp of coconut oil.
14. You need 4-5 of cashew nuts.
15. It's 2 tbsps of fresh lemon juice.
16. It's 4-5 of curry leaves.
17. You need of Fresh coriander, finely chopped, for garnish.

Coconut Rice instructions

1. Soak the rice in 1 cup water and leave it aside for 30mins or more..
2. On medium flame, heat the coconut oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, once they crackle, add cumin seeds and asafoetida. Add curry leaves..
3. Then add chana daal and urad daal, while continuously stirring, so that the daal don't get burnt. Sauté them for around 2 minutes..
4. Then add the salt, coconut, cashew nuts, onions, chillies and ginger. Cook till the onions are translucent. Then add tumeric and mix well..
5. To it, then add the water only, from the soaked rice and bring it to boil..
6. Once the water starts boil, add the rice and mix well. Cover the pan and let it cook on a slow flame, till all the water has been absorbed..
7. Add the lemon juice and mix well. Cook for 1 minute. Remove the pan from heat. Transfer the rice in a serving plate and garnish with fresh chopped coriander..