how to make coconut milk rice
Ingredients :
(240 ml cup used)2 cups rice
1 cup chopped coconut pieces (or store bought coconut milk )
2 ½ cups Water (adjust as needed, you can use ¼ cup more)
1 ½ ginger paste or crushed
2 green chili slit
Fistful of chopped carrots
Fistful of frozen or fresh green peas
2 tbsp. oil, Ghee or butter
Salt as needed
Spices or 1 sprig curry leaves and ½ tsp jeera
1 bay leaf
4 cardamoms
6 cloves
2 inch cinnamon stick
Few pepper corn
½ tsp cumin / jeera
optional for garnish
Few cashews
Few tbsp. Grated coconut
how to make coconut milk rice with step by step :
1. Wash and soak rice till your coconut milk gets ready.
2. Grind chopped coconut pieces or grated coconut with 1 cup water. Filter and extract the milk and add it to the left over 1 1/2 cup water. Set this aside. Alternately can use store bought milk.
3. Heat ghee in a pan, fry cashews, add little coconut fry until fragrant. Set aside. sauté all the spices and green chilli for a min.
saute spices in ghee for coconut milk rice
4. Add ginger paste.fry ginger paste in ghee for coconut milk rice recipe
5.Fry until it begins to smell good.fragrant ginger in ghee for coconut rice recipe
6. Add veggies if using, and fry for a min or two.frying veggies in ghee to make coconut milk rice recipe
7. Pour the coconut milk (mixed with 1 ½ cup water). Add salt as well.addition of milk salt for coconut milk rice recipe
8. When it comes to a boil, add the rice .addition of soaked rice for coconut milk rice recipe
9. Cook till the rice is done fully.cooking rice on a low heat to make coconut milk rice recipe
10. You can cover and cook. If rice is under cooked, you can sprinkle little water and cook further. If cooking in a pressure cooker, close the lid when there is little water left. Cook on a low flame for 5 minutes and switch off. If using normal rice you can allow it to whistle. If using basmathi rice then, do not let it whistle.
pressure cook covered for coconut milk rice recipe
11. When the pressure goes off, open the lid and fluff up the rice.
fluffing up andhra style coconut milk rice
12. Once the rice is done, garnish with fried cashews and fried coconut. coconut milk rice is ready to serve
Instructions:
Wash and soak rice for at least 10 to 15 minutes.
Keep aside one to 2 tbsp. Of scraped coconut. Blend chopped coconut pieces with 1 cup water. Filter to extract the milk and Mix with the rest of the water. i.e. 1 ½ cup water. Store bought milk can also be used.
Add ghee to a pan or pot, fry the grated coconut till it turns slightly brown. Add cashews and fry. Set these aside. This step is optional.
To the same pan, add spices and fry till they turn fragrant. Add ginger paste and fry until it smells fragrant. Add slit green chili, chopped vegetables and fry to remove the raw smells.
One to two minutes would be enough
Add the milk along with the water (if you haven’t mixed with 1 ½ cup water) and add salt.
When the milk begins to boil, add rice and stir.
Cook till the rice is fully cooked. Cover and cook on a medium flame. Little water can be sprinkled if rice is still not cooked well.
Garnish coconut milk rice with roasted coconut and cashews.
